Afterword
by Cora Buhlert
All right, I admit it. There is no pulp writer named Richard Blakemore and never was. I, Cora Buhlert, made him up, created him as the protagonist for my Silencer series about a pulp writer who dresses up as his own character to fight crime. And just in case you’re wondering who wrote the Thurvok and the Kurval stories — well, that was me as well.
The Silencer series focusses on Richard’s crimefighting exploits — we only get brief glimpses of his writing. However, I have always wondered just what Richard’s writing was like, especially since it is established throughout the series that The Silencer wasn’t all he wrote.
In the Silencer story Mean Streets and Dead Alleys, Richard purchases the January 1936 issue of Weird Tales and is pleased to find a new instalm
