I’ve got this fabulous book on my shelf which I’m not going to share with you today! I pulled it off the shelf to see if I could find someone for J, I’m excited to tell you I haven’t missed a letter yet…a day but not a letter.

Carl Richard Jacobi 1908 to 1997 began making money in his teens writing and selling his own dime novels to his fellow students at 10-cents a piece. He must have been good as before he graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in English Literature he sold a story to a magazine for $50 having already sold stories for $25. Pity the magazine folded and he saw nothing of his $50.

Anyway, he continued writing and selling, sometimes not selling but continuing to write as a journalist. I’d say he must have been pretty good as I found his name in a list in this book I’m not telling you about yet.

Mary Elizabeth Counselman was the queen of weird tales and wrote her top 10 in this book, you can see the photo above. She has this to say about Revelations in Black by Jacobi:

Carl’s vampire story hit me so hard, I later bound a tear-out of it from his paperback, exactly as his vampire’s evil book was described in the yarn.

Yes, Jacobi wrote science fiction but he was multi-skilled and wrote so much more. I’ve found an anthology in eformat of 19 of his short stories on Angus & Robertson edited by Clifford D Simak which you can purchase for the princely sum of 99c and make me heaps of money, possibly a few cents, anyway.