Ian Covell has continued his attempts to track down some of the more obscure appearances of author Charles Runyon in print, adding to the bibliography established for him a few weeks ago on this blog. With the assistance of Victor Berch and Charles himself, a number of additional stories have been located and/or confirmed.

   These additions won’t be added to the blog version, however. I’ve set up a permanent webpage for the bibliography on the main M*F website, and this will be the “official” version, as complete as it is at the moment, and as it will be whenever any additional corrections are found.

   First, as relayed from Victor Berch to Ian and on to me:

      Ian:

   Here is the bibliographic data on one of Runyon’s items you were looking for: “The Appointment” Knight Magazine, vol. 7 no. 11, March 1970.

         Best,

            Victor

   This information was then sent on to Charles, who replied:

  Dear Ian,

   Your last e-mail stimulated me to look again through my files and lo! this hunter of the East turned up a copy of Knight, Volume 7, number 11, with my story called “The Appointment.” It is not crime fiction, nor is it strictly raunch, but simply a revealing story of a meeting between man and woman.

   Also, in that same mother lode, I unearthed a copy of Man’s World, April 1964, which contains a book-length feature called “The Naked Bums” – printed by Gold Medal as The Death Cycle. It must be seen to be believed, that a serious attempt at writing a suspense novel should be treated with such cavalier lack of taste. Yech! as Alfred E Neuman is fond of saying.

   Continuing now, I also found the Adam 1965 Yearbook containing the novelette called: “Never Kiss a Killer,” which stands up well alongside my suspense novels. And finally, Adam, Vol. 13, No 6, in almost mint condition, containing the short story “There Must Be More Than This.” Barry Malzberg liked it so well he wrote me a letter about it, which I still have somewhere in my files. That’s about it for now; I just wanted to say thanks for your help, and don’t stop looking, because there’s more stuff out there somewhere.

Chas.