Walter B. Gibson (1905 - 1985) |
Walter Gibson, also writing as Maxwell Grant, was a magician and enthusiast of magic, a crossword-puzzle creator for the Ledger Syndicate, and a powerhouse author most known for The Shadow pulp stories. In the year 1932 alone, he typed out 1,680,000 words and maintained a monumental writing output for most of his days. He was awarded a Literary Fellowship by The Academy of Magical Arts in 1971. |
Anthony Tollin's The Shadow's Sanctum site
Audio of Gibson at the Orlandocon in Florida, 1977
Thomas Shimeld's Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow book
The Shadow radio program at Internet Archive
The Shadow at The Vintage Library
The Shadow Knows downloadable documentary
List of Works
The Complete Beginner's Guide To Magic
Mastering Magic
The Complete Guide To Knots
Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games
Magic With Science
The Mystic and Occult Arts
A Blonde For Murder
The Silent Seven
The Living Shadow
The Eyes of The Shadow
Cry Shadow!
Shadow Beware
Mark of The Shadow
Shadow Go Mad!
The Shadow's Revenge
Night of The Shadow
The Shadow Laughs!
The Death Tower
Grove of Doom
Hidden Death
Gangdom's Doom
Green Eyes
The Ghost Makers
The Red Menace
Hands In the Dark
The Black Master
The Creeping Death
The Shadow's Shadow
Fingers of Death
The Wealth Seeker
The Death Giver
(not a complete list)
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On writing The Shadow novels: "Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them."
"I do not hammer nails. I cannot put up storm windows. If I mess up my hands, I am in real trouble. They have to be able to write and to type."
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