Another of the sharp acquisitions made by the editors of the October 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonders Stories was the story “Yesterday’s Doors” by Arthur J. Burks (1898-1974), who was something of a legend in pulp writing, a “million words a year man,” (although one pulp scholar estimates that his output was closer to two million words in many years)^*. In addition to all his writing, he found time to serve as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in both world wars, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Virgil Finlay, as he often was, contributed the story art.

This issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories is available to read and download at the Internet Archive.

^*See Robert Kenneth Jones, The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines of the 1930s. (West Linn, OR: FAX Collector’s Editions, 1975), p. 83.