
Tragic Magic

The website of the greatest pulp fiction writer who ever lived


When Hack was contemplating writing a rip-off of Agatha Christie’s long-running play The Mousetrap, he learned that his cover artist Jonny M. had once played Christopher Wren in a successful production of the show. So, he based the thinly veiled imitation of the Wren character on Jonny and included thinly veiled imitations of the other personalities in Christie’s script. The only original character was a ditzy blonde nymphomaniac who stood out like a sore thumb from everything else in the book, but it was the only way Hack could keep himself interested.
Happy heavenly birthday to Agatha Christie!

Happy National Actors Day!


Happy heavenly birthday to My Fair Lady director George Cukor!


Jonny and Boris’ adventures in Paris continue (even though we’ve gotten a lot of letters from fans begging for them to stop).

When Hack realized that today is William Shakespeare’s birthday, he thought the time was overdue for another of his adaptations of one of the Bard’s plays.
We begged him not to.


A joyous happy 99th birthday to the great William Daniels!