The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Otto Penzler

Author:Otto Penzler [Penzler, Otto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Anthology, Ghosts
ISBN: 9780307474490
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Amazon: 0307474496
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Goodreads: 16098984
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SONG OF THE DEAD

Wyatt Blassingame

AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE University of Alabama, Wyatt (Rainey) Blassingame (1909–1985) was eager to travel, so he hit the road and was given the nickname “Hobo.” He got a job with a newspaper but lost it within a year because of the Depression. He eventually found his way to New York City in 1933, where his brother Lurton, a literary agent, showed the young writer a stack of pulp magazines and told him to take them home and study them, as they were buying stories. Six weeks later, Wyatt, who had never even heard of the pulps, sold his first story. A slower writer than many of his contemporaries, he nonetheless sold four hundred stories to the pulps before serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and about six hundred throughout his career. The service gave him background for several books, and he graduated to the better-paying slick magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, American, and Redbook. When the fiction markets began to dry up, he turned to writing nonfiction articles, mainly on travel, and children’s books, mostly about animals and American history. His only book of mystery fiction was a short story collection, John Smith Hears Death Walking (1944). Perhaps his best-known mystery character was Joe Gee (a short name he liked because he could type it quickly but which still counted as two words), who couldn’t sleep while he was on a case. He also wrote many pulp stories under the pseudonym William B. Rainey.

“Song of the Dead” was first published in the March 1935 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine.

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