Homer Eon Flint (born as Homer Eon Flindt ; 1888 –1924) was an American writer of pulp science fiction novels and short stories.
21-530: He began working as a scenarist for silent films in 1912 (reportedly at his wife's insistence). In 1918, he published "The Planeteer" in All-Story Weekly . His "Dr. Kinney" stories were reprinted by Ace Books in 1965, and with Austin Hall he co-wrote the novel The Blind Spot . He died in 1924 under mysterious circumstances, his body found at the bottom of a canyon underneath a stolen taxi. His son
42-523: A Munsey pulp. Debuting in January 1905 (the word "Magazine" was dropped from the title in 1908), this pulp was published monthly until March 1914. Effective March 7, 1914, it changed to a weekly schedule and the title All-Story Weekly . In May 1914, All-Story Weekly was merged with another story pulp, The Cavalier , and used the title All-Story Cavalier Weekly for one year. Editors of All-Story included Newell Metcalf and Robert H. Davis. The All-Story
63-414: A children's weekly magazine. The title changed to just The Argosy in 1888, and in 1896 Munsey switched to using coarse pulp paper, and printing only fiction, thus launching the first pulp magazine . It was immediately successful. Other publishers brought out competing magazines, such as Street & Smith 's The Popular Magazine in 1903, and Story-Press's The Monthly Story Magazine in 1905. As
84-921: A three-volume series of children's mysteries, published by A. L. Burt. His granddaughter, Leslie Garis, wrote a more revealing Garis family memoir, The House of Happy Endings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007). Written under Howard R. Garis, and published by Bradley Written under the pen name Lester Chadwick Originally released as Two Wild Cherries ; re-released as The Dick and Janet Cherry series; as Howard R. Garis (This series later released under alternative titles by McLoughlin, and book order changed) as Howard R. Garis (This series later released under alternative titles by McLoughlin) as Howard R. Garis as Howard R. Garis as by Howard R. Garis Volumes 1 and 2 initially published by Chatterton-Peck. Volumes 1 through 6 issued by Grosset & Dunlap. Volumes 6 and 7 issued by Garden City Publishing (in paperback only) Volume 1 through 6 retitled and issued by George Sully as
105-633: Is the magazine that first published Edgar Rice Burroughs , beginning with " Under the Moons of Mars ", a serialized novel eventually published in book form as A Princess of Mars , and later The Gods of Mars . Other All-Story writers included Rex Stout , later a famed mystery writer, and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart , Western writers Max Brand and Raymond S. Spears , and horror and fantasy writers Tod Robbins , Abraham Merritt , Perley Poore Sheehan and Charles B. Stilson. All-Story also published poetry. One notable writer who published poems in
126-664: The Newark Evening News . He did some work on the side for WNJR also in Newark. The first Uncle Wiggily story appeared January 10, 1910, in the Newark News . For almost four decades the newspaper published an Uncle Wiggily story by Garis every day except Sunday, and the series was eventually nationally syndicated. By the time Garis retired from the newspaper in 1947, he had written more than 11,000 Uncle Wiggily stories. In 1916 Milton Bradley began selling
147-675: The All-Story was Djuna Barnes . The now largely forgotten Eldred Kurtz Means (March 11, 1878 - February 19, 1957) was a constant and prolific contributor to pulp magazines such as All-Story Weekly , Argosy and its predecessors, often featuring blackface minstrel show dialogue. In 2006, a copy of the October 1912 issue of The All-Story , featuring the first appearance of the character Tarzan in any medium, sold for $ 59,750 in an auction held by Heritage Auctions of Dallas . In 1882, Frank A. Munsey launched The Golden Argosy ,
168-696: The Bobbsey Twins ; as Clarence Young , the Motor Boys series; as Lester Chadwick , the Baseball Joe series; and as Marion Davidson , a number of books including several featuring the Camp Fire Girls . The couple's children also wrote for Stratemeyer. After Edward Stratemeyer's death in May 1930, his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1892–1982) and Edna C. Squier (1895–1974), ran
189-565: The Uncle Wiggily Game . In 1987 Parker Brothers bought the rights to the board game and produced it for many years. As of 2018 Winning Moves was manufacturing the Uncle Wiggily Game . Garis wrote many books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate under various pseudonyms. As Victor Appleton , he wrote about the enterprising Tom Swift ; as Laura Lee Hope , he is generally credited with writing volumes 4–28 and 41 of
210-466: The Apes appeared. The first issue's cover printed the words "Something New" in a script font on a red background. A picture of two cowboys appeared on the next issue. The third issue took over the cover for a declaration that the magazine had reached 200,000 circulation, but thereafter artwork was used on every cover. Artists included Valentine Sandberg and F. X. Chamberlain . The magazine's title
231-460: The January to June issues, which science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz commented "caused some to class Serviss as the equal of Jules Verne". Mary Roberts Rineharts ' first story, "A Gasoline Road Agent", appeared in the April 1905 issue. The most important author discovered by Davis was Edgar Rice Burroughs , whose first sale was Under the Moons of Mars , the first in his Barsoom series. It
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#1732802274182252-699: The Young Reporter Series circa 1918. as Howard R. Garis. Published by Graham & Matlack, New York. Compilations of stories originally read over the New Jersey Telephone Herald entertainment service. as Howard R. Garis Published by R. F. Fenno This series of children's books was written by Garis beginning in 1910. Each volume contains 31 stories, one for each day of the month: as Howard R. Garis; Published by Cupples & Leon, illustrated by Julia Greene as Howard R. Garis. Cupples & Leon published this series about
273-556: The company, with the result that Garis stopped writing for the Syndicate in 1933 after several disagreements. Garis moved to Amherst, Massachusetts in 1950, and died there in 1962. Garis' son, Roger Garis , penned a biography of the writing Garis family My Father Was Uncle Wiggily (McGraw-Hill, 1966), as well as writing several books under his own name and pseudonyms, including a four-volume series of children's adventures/mysteries for A. L. Burt . His daughter, Cleo F. also wrote
294-592: The competition grew, Munsey decided to add another pulp title. Munsey launched The All-Story Magazine in January 1905 on a monthly schedule with Bob Davis as the editor, and Davis hired Thomas Metcalf to work for him as managing editor. Munsey had hired Davis early in 1904 to work on the New York Sunday News , but that ceased publication in April, and Davis had been fiction editor of Munsey's Magazine since then. In March 1914 All-Story 's schedule switched to weekly, and in May of that year it
315-432: The short stories were science fiction as well: Howard R. Garis 's "The Ghost at Box 13", and Margaret Prescott Montague 's "The Great Sleep Tanks". In the May issue Davis reprinted Garrett P. Serviss 's short novel The Moon Metal (originally published in book form in 1900), about a new fiscal standard that replaced gold with a metal from the moon. Serviss also appeared in 1909 with A Columbus of Space , serialized in
336-441: Was All-Story Weekly again. In 1929 Munsey's reorganized two of their magazines: Munsey's Monthly became part of a new love story magazine titled All-Story , and Argosy All-Story Weekly became simply Argosy . The new All-Story was soon retitled All-Story Love Stories and continued publication until 1955. Howard R. Garis Howard Roger Garis ( ( 1873-04-25 ) April 25, 1873 – ( 1962-11-06 ) November 6, 1962)
357-546: Was Max Hugh Flindt (1915–2004), the co-founder of The Ancient Astronaut Society. With Otto Binder , he co-authored Mankind – Child of the Stars in 1974. He also had a daughter, Bonnie Palmer. (from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database ) Novels Story collections Serials Short fiction Career Retrospective All-Story Weekly The All-Story Magazine was
378-477: Was an American author, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears , an engaging elderly rabbit. Many of his books were illustrated by Lansing Campbell . Garis and his wife, Lilian Garis , were possibly the most prolific children's authors of the early 20th century. Garis was born in Binghamton, New York . He and his spouse Lilian Garis both worked as reporters for
399-455: Was combined with another Munsey pulp, The Cavalier , under the title All-Story Cavalier Weekly. The following year the " Cavalier " was dropped, and it continued as All-Story Weekly again until 1920, when it was merged into The Argosy. The first issue included the first instalment of five novels, including W. Bert Foster's When Time Slipped a Cog , about a man who discovers a year of his life has passed that he cannot remember. Two of
420-558: Was originally The All-Story Magazine . This was shortened to The All-Story in June 1911, and then changed to All-Story Weekly when it switched from monthly to weekly publication with the March 7, 1914 issue. From May 16, 1914 to May 8, 1915 it was titled All-Story Cavalier Weekly as a result of the merger with The Cavalier , and for the rest of its run, until the July 17, 1920 issue, it
441-489: Was serialized from February to July 1912 in The All-Story Magazine . Darkness and Dawn , by George Allan England, had been serialized in another Munsey magazine, The Cavalier , starting in January that year, and science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz regards the appearance of these two stories as signalling the start of an era of popular science-fictional love stories. In October Burroughs' Tarzan of
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