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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

 

 

(great authors main page)

 

 

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)

 

 


 

 

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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