THE ANNOTATED GUIDE TO STARTLING STORIES

Providing fast-action science fiction novels, Startling Stories was established beginning in January 1939 as a sister publication to Thrilling Wonder Stories. Publishing 99 issues in all, and combining Fantastic Story Magazine and Thrilling Wonder Stories with its ninety-seventh issue, it finally suspended publication in Fall 1955, one of the last of the pulps to fold. Leon L. Gammell, an avid reader and collector of that period, views that eras stories with both nostalgia and objectivity, his incisive critiques will provide interested readers with numerous guideposts to a wealth of exciting fantasy and SF reading._,