Joel Townsley Rogers
— An Unannotated Bibliography

• Poems included in Eight More Harvard Poets. (Publisher?) Around 1920.
• "The Battle Cruiser Lady." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 49(1), 18 February 1920:57-61.
• "The Pure in Heart." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories [49 (2)?], 4 March 1920:96.
• "The Romance of Mr. Butterthin." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 50 (1), 4 April 1920:49-56.
• "A Cinema Siren." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 50 (3), 18 May 1920:63-69.
• "Tale of a Tail-Spinner." ("By Roger Curly.") Harper's, June 1920.
• "A Perfect Lady." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 51 (1), 4 June 1920:85-88.
• "The Love Eternal." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 51 (3), 4 July 1920:35-38.
• " Three on an Island." ("By Roger Curly.") Harper's, August 1920.
• "The Second Mrs. Jones." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 52 (2), second August number,1920:23-24.
• "The Curse of Adam." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 53 (2), 25 September 1920:30.
• "Smokeless Powder." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 54 (1), 25 October 1920:95-98.
• "The Clutching Hand." ("J. R. Townsley.") Snappy Stories 54 (1), 25 October 1920:99.
• "The Dangerous Sex." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 54 (2), 10 November 1920:29-31.
• "The Man with the Broken Hand." ("By J. R. Townsley.") Snappy Stories 54 (2), 10 November 1920:93-97.
• "A Life Sentence." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories, [1921?]:35-39.
• "General Interrogation." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories, [1921?]:35-38.
• "The Everlasting Flame." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories, [1921?]:87-90.
• "The Immorality of Elinor." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories, [1921?]:57-61.
• "The Don and the Duello." ("By J. R. Townsley.") Snappy Stories, [1921?]:31-36.
• "Tales in the Tragic Tense." ("By Joel Townsley Rogers.") The Double Dealer, April 1921:160-162
• "The Great Sherlock Solves Another." Ten Story Book, April 1921:40-42.
• "A Marriage of Convenience." ("By Roger Curly.") Ten Story Book, April 1921:53-56.
• "Mrs. Reynolds's Husband." ("By Roger Curly.") Snappy Stories 58 (2), 10 May 1921:51-60.
• "Lost Lady with the Amber Eyes." Young's Magazine, July 1921:218-224.
• "Shadows of the Silver Screen." Screenland, August 1921:36-37.
• "Roses Are Red." The Follies, November 1921:3-24.
• "Bon Voyage." Snappy Stories 64 (3), 18 February 1922:81-88.
• "Bramble-Thistles Stick." Publication and date unknown. (Mentioned in Adventure, 30 December 1922.)
• "Lover's Gold from Turon." Publication and date unknown. (Mentioned in Adventure, 30 December 1922.)
• "Mrs. Hubert's Love Affair." The Follies — the Magazine of Fascinating Fiction, April 1922:49- 63.
• "The Cigarette Fiend." Snappy Stories, First May number, 1922:67-73.
• "A Right to Rose." Fascinating Fiction, July 1922:45-54.
• "The Favors of Vera Tite." Snappy Stories, Second August number, 1922:61-72.
• "Mail for the Whirlwind." Adventure, 30 December 1922:109-126.
• "Hark! The Rattle." Weird Tales, March 1923.
• "They Lived, They Loved, They —." Metropolitan, May 1923:30-32,64-68.
• Once in a Red Moon. New York: Brentano's, 1923.
  Fender Tucker, in a labor of love, has brought this ancient title back into print with his print-on-demand publishing enterprise, Ramble House. You can order a copy from his website.
• "The Fool Killer." Adventure, 20 June 1923 [64pp.].
• "Dead Red Ants." Adventure, 10 September 1924.
• "Bound in Genuine Human Parchment — Chase S. Osborn." Brentano's Book Chat 4 (1), January-February 1925:42-46.
• "The Goblin Sheep." The Lariat Story Magazine 2 (1), January 1926:1-21.
  • Reprinted as "Cotton Cows." Action Novels 4 (6), October-November 1932:64-83.
• "The Other Man's Wife." Metropolitan, [month?] 1926:57-60,100-105.
• "The Smoke Trail." Part one. Three Star Magazine 1 (4), 24 May 1928:443-460.
  –Part two. Three Star Magazine 2 (1), 14 June 1928:96-113.
  –Part three. Three Star Magazine 2 (2), 28 June 1928:235-241.
  –Part four. Three Star Magazine 2 (3), 12 July 1928:364-369.
• "Desperate River." [Place and date of publication unknown; mentioned on title page of "The Flame Jumper."]
• "The Yellow Hawk." Air Stories, September 1928:33-49.
• "The Sky Hook." Part one. Flying Stories, November [1928?]:17-30.
  –Part two. Flying Stories, December [1928?]:26-39.
  –Part three. Flying Stories, January [1929?]:43-54.
  –Part four. Flying Stories, February [1929?]:62-74.
• "Secret Operative K-13." Part one. Everybody's Magazine, December 1928;352:64-90.
  –Part two. Everybody's Magazine, January 1929;353:58-77.
  –Part three. Everybody's Magazine, February 1929;354:140-162.
• "The Flame Jumper." Action Novels, April [year?]:69-84.
• "Blood on the Moon." Part one. Air Stories, September 1929:50-63.
  –Part two. Air Stories, October 1929:64-77.
  –Part three. Air Stories, November 1929:70-83.
  –Part four. Air Stories, December 1929:88-98.
• "Ace in the Hole." Aces, January 1930 [54 pages].
  • Reprinted under other titles in Wings, December 1934 and winter 1937.
  
• "The Sea Raider." Short Stories 25 April 1930.
• "The Fly-by-Night." Aces? Date? [referred to in Aces, September 1930].
• "The Mail from Dead Man." Action Novels 2 (4), June 1930:3-54.
• "Early Bird." Aces, June (1930 or 1931?) [25 pages].
• "The Spy Squad." Aces 2 (10), September 1930:3-54.
• "Too Game to Die." War Novels 2 (33), September 1930:44-81.
• "The Fighting Breed." War Stories 30 (87), November 1930:8-48.
• "The Seventh Man." Aces, March [year?]:52-74.
  • Reprinted in Wings, spring 1936.
  • Reprinted in Wings 11 (11), spring 1952:74-96.
• "Sky Guns of Capt. Death." Wings 4 (3), March 1931:3-30.
• "Ace Traitor." Aces, May 1931 [46 pages].
• "The Crash Club." Wings 4 (5), May 1931:3-28.
• "Sky-jammers." Aces, June (1931?) [58 pages].
• "The Ace from Missouri." Part one. Wings 4 (8), August 1931:58-82.
  –Part two. Wings 4 (9), September 1931:51-76.
  –Part three. Wings [4 (10), October 1931].
• "Lost Aces." Aces 3 (12), November 1931:45-89.
• "Enter Captain Death." Part one. Short Stories 139 (3), 10 May 1932:8-36
  –Part two. Short Stories [139 (4), 24 May 1932?]:100-136
  –Part three. Short Stories [140 (1), 6 June 1932?]:100-122.
  –Part four. Short Stories [140 (2), 20 June 1932?]:90-122.
• "The Flying Hearse." Action Novels 4 (4), June 1932:44-82.
• "King of the Camels." Wings 5 (9), September 1932:42-88.
• "Cotton Cows." Action Novels 4 (6), October-November 1932:64-83.
• "The Gallows Birds." Wings 5 (11), November 1932:30-74.
  • Reprinted as "The Sky-Hooting Gyrines." Wings 12 (1), spring 1953:56-95.
• "Vengeance Is Mine." Pictorial Review, March 1933.
• "White Thunderbolt." Wings 6 (1), December 1933-January 1934:64-100.
• "Scum Squadron." Wings, July 1934 [50 pages].
• "Murder of the Dead Man." Detective Fiction Weekly , 28 July 1934].
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories.
• "The Kite Killer." Wings, [1934?].
• "Doves of Doom." Wings 6 (5), September 1934:80-124.
• "Firebirds." Wings, October (1934?) [45 pages].
• "Pay Hop." Wings 6 (7), November 1934,7:78-122.
• "Whirlwind." Wings 6 (8), December 1934:74-120.
• "The Hiding Horror." Two-Books Detective Magazine, January 1935. ("Joel Rogers")
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories.
• "The Tornado Sweeps." Wings 6 (9), January 1935:64-121.
• "The Seahorse Marine." Wings 6 (10), Febuary 1935:56-124.
  • Reprinted as "Flight into Fury." Wings 11 (8), spring 1950:2-71.
  
• "The Raid of the Red Dragons." Wings 6 (11), March 1935:74-119.
• "The Tornado King." Wings, April-May 1935 [58 pp.].
• "Blood on My Doorstep." (Magazine and date unknown.)
• "Die a Little Longer." (Magazine and date unknown.)
• "The Eel Walks." Part 1. Detective Fiction Weekly, 3 August 1935.
  –Part 2. Detective Fiction Weekly, 10 August 1935.
• "Body of the Missing." Part 1. Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 December 1935.
  –Part 2. Detective Fiction Weekly, 21 December 1935.
  –Part 3. Detective Fiction Weekly, 28 December 1935.
• "The Devil Flies Today." Wings, Winter 1936.
• "The Rubber Check." Argosy Magazine, 19 December 1936.
• "Blind Is the Night." Argosy Magazine?, date unknown. (Mentioned in Argosy, 2 August 1941, along with "The Rubber Check.")
• "Locusts from Asia." Part one. Argosy 272 (3), 17 April 1937:32-60.
  –Part two. Argosy [272 (4), 24 April 1937?].
• "Plot for Murder." Detective Fiction Weekly, 14 August 1937.
• "Hark, Africa!" Adventure. Date unknown. It's featured on the cover of a 15-cent Adventure magazine that also lists MacKinlay Kantor and Maurice Walsh.
• "Killigee Swamp." Popular Detective, September 1937.
• "The Graveyard Patrol." Wings, Fall 1937 [21 pp.].
• "Lonesome Road." All-American Fiction, December 1937:6-25,129-154.
• "Beyond Space and Time." All-American Fiction, February 1938.
  • Reprinted in Super Science Stories 7 (2), September 1950.
  • Reprinted in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. Ed. Anthony Boucher. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1959; pages 380-399.
• "Pilots Die Young." Wings, Spring 1938.
• "The Crimson Vampire." Detective Book Magazine, Spring 1938. ("Joel Rogers")
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories.
  
• "A Date with Lachesis." All-American Fiction, July-August 1938.
• "Drum Patrols." Adventure?, (month?) 1940.
  • Reprinted in Adventure, February 1955:31,40-46.
• "Mass Murderer." Detective Fiction Weekly , 5 July 1941.
  • Reprinted in New Detective Magazine, February 1951, as "The Last Mrs. Hankler."
• "Pink Diamonds." Argosy, 2 August 1941.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories.
• "Murderer's Last Smoke." Detective Fiction Weekly, 2 August 1941. ("Joel Rownsley Rogers")
  • Reprinted as "The Lights of Sing Sing." Detective Fiction, February 1951.
• "Ten Thousand Witnesses." Detective Tales April 1942.
• "Commandos Fight Alone!" Dare-Devil Aces September 1942.
• "Five Dumb Men and the Highfish." Big-Book Detective Magazine 2 (2), October 1942.
• "To Hell — and Back." Dare-Devil Aces 30 (3), November 1942:26-53.
• "Death Is My Domain." Action Stories, winter 1943: 38-53.
• "The Dead Can't Die." Detective Tales, January 1943.
• "Through the Blackboard." Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1943.
• "The Mercy of Hadj Aleman." Action Stories, summer 1943:102-127.
• "His Name Was Not Forgotten." Saturday Evening Post, 28 August 1943.
  • Reprinted in Great Westerns from the Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Julie Eisenhower. Indianapolis, Indiana: Curtis Publishing Company; 226-239.
  • Reprinted in A Treasury of American Horror Stories. Ed. Frank D. McSherry Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Bonanza/Crown Books, 1985.
• "Tomorrow the Deluge." Argosy, (1944?).
• "The Return of the Murderer." Part 1. Flynn's Detective Fiction, May 1944.
  –Part 2. Flynn's Detective Fiction, June 1944.
  • Reprinted in New Detective Magazine, June 1951.
• "Singing in the Wilderness." Writer's Digest, [July?] 1944.
• "The Little Doll Says Die." Detective Tales, March 1945.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006).
• "The Red Right Hand." New Detective Magazine, March 1945.
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories.
• The Red Right Hand. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.
  • Reprinted in Pocket Books, (1946), Dell (1957), Pyramid (1970s?), and Carroll & Graf (1983 and 1997) paperback editions, and reprinted in a University of California hardback edition in 1978. Translated into French (twice), Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic, and possibly German. Most recently (2005) into Italian as La rossa mano destra. I've also been contacted by three publishers or agents wanting to translate into Chinese, but I don't know whether that's happened or not.
• Lady with the Dice. New York: Handi-Book Mystery, 1946.
  This is another of the books that Fender Tucker has generously brought back into print; you can order a copy from the Ramble House website.
• "The Hanging Rope." New Detective Magazine, September 1946.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories.
• "Mayhem-Cum Laude." New Detective Magazine, November 1946.
• "The Murderer." The Saturday Evening Post, 23 November 1946.
  • Reprinted in The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1946. New York, New York: Random House, 1946.
  • Reprinted in The Saturday Evening Post Treasury in 1954.
  • Reprinted in Ellery Queen's Anthology, 1960 (issue?).
  • Reprinted in Ellery Queen's Anthology, spring-summer 1977, pages 242-258
  • Reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July 1995.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006).
• "My Friend Death." New Detective Magazine, May 1947.
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2007).
• "Killing Time." New Detective Magazine, July 1947.
  • Reprinted in Killing Time and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2007).
• "Red Runs the Tide." New Detective Magazine, May 1948.
• "The Murder Plot." Mystery Book Magazine 8 (2), Spring 1949.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006).
• "Two Deaths Have I." New Detective Magazine, May 1949.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006).
• "Blood on My Doorstep ." New Detective Magazine, July 1949.
• "Die a Little Longer." New Detective Magazine, July 1950.
• "Night Before Murder." New Detective Magazine, September 1950.
• "The Belated Corpse." Detective Fiction, May 1951.
• "Moment without Time." Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1952.
  • Reprinted in Best from Startling Stories. New York: Henry Holt, Inc., 1953.
• "When the Devil God Smiled." Dime Detective Magazine, June 1952.
• "The Night the World Turned Over." Startling Stories, November 1952.
• "Night of Horror." The Saturday Evening Post, 7 June 1958.
  • Reprinted in The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1958. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1958.
  • Reprinted in Night of Horror and Other Stories (Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006).
• The Stopped Clock. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.
  • Reprinted as Never Leave My Bed. [Publisher? Date?]
  • This book is back in print! Yet another of the books that Fender Tucker, in a labor of love, has made available through his print-on-demand publishing enterprise, Ramble House.
• "No Matter Where You Go." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1959.
  • Reprinted in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ninth Series. Ed. Robert P. Mills. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960; 201-222. (This anthology evidently was reprinted as an Ace paperback in 1964.)
  • Translated as "Reflet dans un miroir." Fiction 203, November 1970:129-148.
• Cauchemar d'une nuit d'eté. Trans. and ed. Stephane Bourgoin. Paris? 1985.
• Night of Horror and Other Stories. Shreveport: Ramble House, 2006. This newly published book brought together by Fender Tucker includes seven stories: "Pink Diamonds," "The Little Doll Says Die!," "The Hanging Rope," "The Murderer," "The Murder Plot," "Two Deaths Have I," and "Night of Horror." It can be ordered from Ramble House.
• Killing Time and Other Stories. Shreveport: Ramble House, 2007. The latest one created by Fender Tucker has half a dozen stories: "Murder of the Dead Man," "The Hiding Horror," "The Crimson Vampire," "The Red Right Hand" (the original magazine story), "My Friend Death," and "Killing Time." Buy it from Ramble House.

  
  

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