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From the moment Miles Billings arrived in a little town near Salem Corners called Witches’ Hollow, Hannah the witch began her reign of terror. While innocent people were being “hexed” and reduced to mumbling nonsense, The Man of Bronze went into action, risking his own life and those of his bold allies. Doc Savage plunged into nightmare horrors to subdue the most terrifying Mast of Crime alive.
120 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1939
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Kenneth Robeson
917 books134 followersKenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger. Though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent, there were many others who contributed to the series, including:
William G. Bogart
Evelyn Coulson
Harold A. Davis
Lawrence Donovan
Alan Hathway
W. Ryerson Johnson
Lester Dent is usually considered to be the creator of Doc Savage. In the 1990s Philip José Farmer wrote a new Doc Savage adventure, but it was published under his own name and not by Robeson. Will Murray has since taken up the pseudonym and continued writing Doc Savage books as Robeson.
All 24 of the original stories featuring The Avenger were written by Paul Ernst, using the Robeson house name. In order to encourage sales Kenneth Robeson was credited on the cover of The Avenger magazine as "the creator of Doc Savage" even though Lester Dent had nothing to do with The Avenger series. In the 1970s, when the series was extended with 12 additional novels, Ron Goulart was hired to become Robeson.
William G. Bogart
Evelyn Coulson
Harold A. Davis
Lawrence Donovan
Alan Hathway
W. Ryerson Johnson
Lester Dent is usually considered to be the creator of Doc Savage. In the 1990s Philip José Farmer wrote a new Doc Savage adventure, but it was published under his own name and not by Robeson. Will Murray has since taken up the pseudonym and continued writing Doc Savage books as Robeson.
All 24 of the original stories featuring The Avenger were written by Paul Ernst, using the Robeson house name. In order to encourage sales Kenneth Robeson was credited on the cover of The Avenger magazine as "the creator of Doc Savage" even though Lester Dent had nothing to do with The Avenger series. In the 1970s, when the series was extended with 12 additional novels, Ron Goulart was hired to become Robeson.
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September 25, 2016
The first Doc Savage story appeared in 1933 and the series ran in pulp and later digest format into 1949. Bantam reprinted the entire series in paperback with wonderful, iconic covers starting in the 1960's. Doc was arguably the first great modern superhero with a rich background, continuity, and mythos. The characterizations were far richer than was common for the pulps; his five associates and their sometimes-auxiliary, Doc's cousin Pat, and the pets Chemistry and Habeas Corpus, all had very distinctive characteristics and their byplay was frequently more entertaining that the current adventure-of-the-month. The settings were also fascinating: Doc's Fortress of Solitude, the Hidalgo Trading Company (which served as a front for his armada of vehicles), and especially the mysterious 86th floor headquarters all became familiar haunts to the reader, and the far-flung adventures took the intrepid band to exotic and richly-described locations all over the world. The adventures were always fast-paced and exciting, from the early apocalyptic world-saving extravaganzas of the early days to the latter scientific-detective style shorter works of the post-World War Two years. There were always a few points that it was difficult to believe along the way, but there were always more ups than downs, and there was never, ever a dull moment. The Doc Savage books have always been my favorite entertainments... I was always, as Johnny would say, superamalgamated!
April 16, 2019
Doc Savage and team find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure involving witches and other supernatural phenomena near Salem Corners. Soon, people are hexed and speaking gibberish, including several of Doc’s own associates. Millionaires are being targeted for major thefts, including a good friend of Doc's. But rest assured, Doc is on the case and ready to utilize all his gadgets, innovative methods, and considerable fighting prowess to get to the bottom of what is really going on.
This 39th Doc Savage adventure (as the Bantam reprint editions number them), was first published in 1939 and is the second installment written by William Bogart and is a definite improvement over his previous effort, World's Fair Goblin. He would go on to write a total of 14 Doc novels. Bogart was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulps. Many were used as backup stories to fill out issues of Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Avenger but he never seemed to make it big. He wrote a number of mystery novels, most featuring a private eye named Johnny Saxon. It is for Johnny Saxon that fans of hard-boiled mystery novels remember Bogart, but even in that arena, he seems to be only a minor figure.
Nevertheless, his mystery skills are evident here in this story. At the root of every Doc Savage yarn is a mystery centered around who is responsible for the current crime spree. Sometimes, it becomes pretty obvious early on but I thought this time around the suspense stayed in play most of the way through. There are also some nice action scenes showing Doc cleverly out-thinking and outmaneuvering the bad guys. Most of the gang is here as well with the only exception being Long-Tom. Even Pat Savage makes an appearance, albeit a minor one.
I always enjoy a Doc Savage novel as a sort of pallet cleanser in between other reading and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
This 39th Doc Savage adventure (as the Bantam reprint editions number them), was first published in 1939 and is the second installment written by William Bogart and is a definite improvement over his previous effort, World's Fair Goblin. He would go on to write a total of 14 Doc novels. Bogart was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulps. Many were used as backup stories to fill out issues of Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Avenger but he never seemed to make it big. He wrote a number of mystery novels, most featuring a private eye named Johnny Saxon. It is for Johnny Saxon that fans of hard-boiled mystery novels remember Bogart, but even in that arena, he seems to be only a minor figure.
Nevertheless, his mystery skills are evident here in this story. At the root of every Doc Savage yarn is a mystery centered around who is responsible for the current crime spree. Sometimes, it becomes pretty obvious early on but I thought this time around the suspense stayed in play most of the way through. There are also some nice action scenes showing Doc cleverly out-thinking and outmaneuvering the bad guys. Most of the gang is here as well with the only exception being Long-Tom. Even Pat Savage makes an appearance, albeit a minor one.
I always enjoy a Doc Savage novel as a sort of pallet cleanser in between other reading and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
November 3, 2014
Based on all the collective Bantam edition cover art, you wouldn't be amiss in wondering if Doc Savage should lay off the fancy devices and try to invent a rip-proof shirt.
October 4, 2024
William Bogart would soon become a prolific writer of Doc Savage novels, turning out five of the twelve in 1940, but he was new in 1939 and this was only his second shot at the series, not to forget to mention that it was also the first without gimmicks getting in the way, because his debut effort was 'World's Fair Goblin' which was tied to its setting. It seems fair to say that this is a better novel but perhaps not as memorable, because all the opportunities I felt Bogart was given to play up the terror in a spooky novel that probably hit the streets just in time for Halloween are opportunities he didn't seem to want to take.
What he did do was set things up really well. On the very first page, Miles Billings picks some lilac and gets cursed. That's a good start and it gets quickly bolstered. He's an engineer surveying land for a new super-highway project that's being planned south of Salem. Oh yes, that Salem. He finds himself in a ghost town that closed with its mill, all twenty or so houses sagging with neglect, and it goes by Witches' Hollow. It's a fair suggestion that Bogart is really rocking at this point and the locals, from Salem Corners two miles up the road, back him up.
The first is unnamed but he says the place is hexed and he won't go near it. Cotton Mather Brown, named for the puritan clergyman who was involved in the Salem witch trials, says that the Witches' Church is also hexed. Well, it would be! His half-witted bindlestiff assistant Hyacinth says that there are still witches in a deserted Witches' Hollow. And, just to nail the point home, a kid steal a steel spike from Miles to kill one of Hannah's dead dogs that's chasing his chickens. If Miles thinks he can ignore all this, he's proven wrong at the point he presents his finding to the board and all that comes is gibberish. He's cracked, he's wacky and he's bewitched, a description that keeps on showing up in this book.
At least he suggests before he loses his marbles that they should call in Col. John Renwick, which they do, but chapter two just repeats chapter one, with only one slight deviation. Renny finds that the ramshackle doors back onto steel walls at the point he tries to put his first through one. The windows too and so he's unable to find the person he thought he saw running around in Witches' Hollow. Hyacinth says it's Hannah, a witch who died a hundred years earlier but still hangs around the place. And yes, Renny is bewitched too.
At least he battles the bewitchment and manages to get back downstairs to radio HQ and bring Monk and Ham into play. The cycle stops repeating at that point but, at various points in the story, Monk and Habeas and even Doc are bewitched, as is the inevitably gorgeous young lady who shows up at HQ looking for Doc. It's about the witches, she says, who got Billings, and then leaves because Doc is conducting a touchy brain operation at the Medical Center. Monk and Ham follow and we learn that she's June Knight, daughter of a Boston millionaire, Mortimer Knight, before they're diverted away from Boston and lose her in the fog at, you'll never guess, Witches' Hollow.
Everything here is set up well, just like a 'Scooby-Doo' episode, though this predates them by thirty years. Every turn leads to another spooky occurrence, enough that we can understand Monk starting to get a bit superstitious, but nothing gets too horrific. All these scares are family friendly Halloween scares until, as you might expect, we see through them to the reality beyond. Yes, Hannah shows up, in classic style. Doc's received a mysterious telephone call asking that he "listen for the rattling of the skeleton's bones tonight in the old belfry" and, on arrival in the church, the century dead witch stands up in a pew, showing herself to be an old crone with an evil face and a black cat. Like she was going to look any other way!
But, from here, it's traps and warnings and more traps and revelations and still more traps. After Monk is ticketed by the local constable because his low flying into Witches' Hollow prompted the Screeching Lady of the Marsh to holler all night, he becomes bewitched and we're only in chapter five. Doc's blown up only three chapters later, along with the entire town hall, after he's bewitched too and locked up in a jail cell to avoiding risking the neighbourhood. You will be shocked, I'm sure, to discover that he gets away from that certain death, only to be tied and chained and dumped into the Forest River in Boston in chapter eleven. I bet you can't guess if he survives that one too, even with Renny dumped in alongside him.
All the capable setup isn't quite backed up by how the story builds but it's not a bad novel on that front. It features a number of characters and, even though Bogart telegraphs capably, we still may not all identify either who's dressed up as Hannah—and no, there are no old lighthouse keepers in this novel—or who his ultimate big boss is. I appreciated that. I liked the reasons behind these spooky shenanigans too, because there have to be some. Clearly there's something going on that would be interrupted by a super-highway, but what isn't immediately obvious and it's revealed slowly and well.
Also, while 'Hex' does some of the good things that we tend to appreciate when they happen in this series, it also avoids doing some of the bad one that we tend not to. There isn't any deus ex machina gadgetry in play, just a few more believable devices: anaesthetic globes, smoke bombs, a magnesium flash. We surely can't complain about radios in planes and phone calls from cigar stores. And, beyond Hannah obviously an imposter, the use of disguises is entirely appropriate. Yes, Doc uses one at a crucial point in the story, but he's not expected to make it work in ten seconds flat and he's not using blackface. What's more, the most obvious use of disguise isn't even him.
If there are dubious moments here, they mostly revolve around the finalé, which wraps up so quickly that it isn't really there. We're all ready for the final battle and, oh, it's over in between paragraphs. There is a little karma in that, but it's not a traditional karmic Doc Savage ending and it feels acutely disappointing after such a setup and build. Also, while Bogart introduces Renny first, to make up for not including him in 'World's Fair Goblin', he doesn't get a huge part. At least he doesn't bring in Pat just to be kidnapped, like he did last time, but he doesn't give her enough opportunity either.
And it's that sense of being underwhelmed that stays with us as we leave this one. It promised to be much more than it ended up being, whether we're talking about Renny or Pat or the whole spooky angle, not to forget the big boss battle at the end, which is kind of what Bogart did back in 1939. I wonder if he reached a word count limit and had to wrap it up without time to edit some earlier material out to make it balance better. While 'Hex' is far from being the highlight even of 1939's stories, he did well enough here for me to look forward to his next novel, 'The Angry Ghost' after a couple of Lester Dent entries in the series.
Oh, and I should mention that he added a couple of details to the Doc Savage mythos that feel a little odd, given what's gone before. Apparently Doc has studied escapology and, at one, point had replicated every one of Houdini's escape routines. That's convenient. And one memorable scene in a vault deliberately has the Man in Bronze standing still, his hair brushing the ceiling that's identified as being 6' 8" high. That's a little taller than we've been led to believe Doc to be thus far.
And he introduced me to a new word too. Ham, we are told, is "frequently the cynosure of female eyes", a sentiment that's easy to grasp from context but means someone or something that is the centre of attention. I should use that more often.
Next month, a Lester Dent double bill because I need to catch up a month so should both wrap up 1939 with 'The Dagger in the Sky' and kick off 1940 in 'The Other World'.
Originally posted at the Nameless Zine in August 2022:
https://www.thenamelesszine.org/Voice...
Index of all my Nameless Zine reviews:
https://books.apocalypselaterempire.com/
What he did do was set things up really well. On the very first page, Miles Billings picks some lilac and gets cursed. That's a good start and it gets quickly bolstered. He's an engineer surveying land for a new super-highway project that's being planned south of Salem. Oh yes, that Salem. He finds himself in a ghost town that closed with its mill, all twenty or so houses sagging with neglect, and it goes by Witches' Hollow. It's a fair suggestion that Bogart is really rocking at this point and the locals, from Salem Corners two miles up the road, back him up.
The first is unnamed but he says the place is hexed and he won't go near it. Cotton Mather Brown, named for the puritan clergyman who was involved in the Salem witch trials, says that the Witches' Church is also hexed. Well, it would be! His half-witted bindlestiff assistant Hyacinth says that there are still witches in a deserted Witches' Hollow. And, just to nail the point home, a kid steal a steel spike from Miles to kill one of Hannah's dead dogs that's chasing his chickens. If Miles thinks he can ignore all this, he's proven wrong at the point he presents his finding to the board and all that comes is gibberish. He's cracked, he's wacky and he's bewitched, a description that keeps on showing up in this book.
At least he suggests before he loses his marbles that they should call in Col. John Renwick, which they do, but chapter two just repeats chapter one, with only one slight deviation. Renny finds that the ramshackle doors back onto steel walls at the point he tries to put his first through one. The windows too and so he's unable to find the person he thought he saw running around in Witches' Hollow. Hyacinth says it's Hannah, a witch who died a hundred years earlier but still hangs around the place. And yes, Renny is bewitched too.
At least he battles the bewitchment and manages to get back downstairs to radio HQ and bring Monk and Ham into play. The cycle stops repeating at that point but, at various points in the story, Monk and Habeas and even Doc are bewitched, as is the inevitably gorgeous young lady who shows up at HQ looking for Doc. It's about the witches, she says, who got Billings, and then leaves because Doc is conducting a touchy brain operation at the Medical Center. Monk and Ham follow and we learn that she's June Knight, daughter of a Boston millionaire, Mortimer Knight, before they're diverted away from Boston and lose her in the fog at, you'll never guess, Witches' Hollow.
Everything here is set up well, just like a 'Scooby-Doo' episode, though this predates them by thirty years. Every turn leads to another spooky occurrence, enough that we can understand Monk starting to get a bit superstitious, but nothing gets too horrific. All these scares are family friendly Halloween scares until, as you might expect, we see through them to the reality beyond. Yes, Hannah shows up, in classic style. Doc's received a mysterious telephone call asking that he "listen for the rattling of the skeleton's bones tonight in the old belfry" and, on arrival in the church, the century dead witch stands up in a pew, showing herself to be an old crone with an evil face and a black cat. Like she was going to look any other way!
But, from here, it's traps and warnings and more traps and revelations and still more traps. After Monk is ticketed by the local constable because his low flying into Witches' Hollow prompted the Screeching Lady of the Marsh to holler all night, he becomes bewitched and we're only in chapter five. Doc's blown up only three chapters later, along with the entire town hall, after he's bewitched too and locked up in a jail cell to avoiding risking the neighbourhood. You will be shocked, I'm sure, to discover that he gets away from that certain death, only to be tied and chained and dumped into the Forest River in Boston in chapter eleven. I bet you can't guess if he survives that one too, even with Renny dumped in alongside him.
All the capable setup isn't quite backed up by how the story builds but it's not a bad novel on that front. It features a number of characters and, even though Bogart telegraphs capably, we still may not all identify either who's dressed up as Hannah—and no, there are no old lighthouse keepers in this novel—or who his ultimate big boss is. I appreciated that. I liked the reasons behind these spooky shenanigans too, because there have to be some. Clearly there's something going on that would be interrupted by a super-highway, but what isn't immediately obvious and it's revealed slowly and well.
Also, while 'Hex' does some of the good things that we tend to appreciate when they happen in this series, it also avoids doing some of the bad one that we tend not to. There isn't any deus ex machina gadgetry in play, just a few more believable devices: anaesthetic globes, smoke bombs, a magnesium flash. We surely can't complain about radios in planes and phone calls from cigar stores. And, beyond Hannah obviously an imposter, the use of disguises is entirely appropriate. Yes, Doc uses one at a crucial point in the story, but he's not expected to make it work in ten seconds flat and he's not using blackface. What's more, the most obvious use of disguise isn't even him.
If there are dubious moments here, they mostly revolve around the finalé, which wraps up so quickly that it isn't really there. We're all ready for the final battle and, oh, it's over in between paragraphs. There is a little karma in that, but it's not a traditional karmic Doc Savage ending and it feels acutely disappointing after such a setup and build. Also, while Bogart introduces Renny first, to make up for not including him in 'World's Fair Goblin', he doesn't get a huge part. At least he doesn't bring in Pat just to be kidnapped, like he did last time, but he doesn't give her enough opportunity either.
And it's that sense of being underwhelmed that stays with us as we leave this one. It promised to be much more than it ended up being, whether we're talking about Renny or Pat or the whole spooky angle, not to forget the big boss battle at the end, which is kind of what Bogart did back in 1939. I wonder if he reached a word count limit and had to wrap it up without time to edit some earlier material out to make it balance better. While 'Hex' is far from being the highlight even of 1939's stories, he did well enough here for me to look forward to his next novel, 'The Angry Ghost' after a couple of Lester Dent entries in the series.
Oh, and I should mention that he added a couple of details to the Doc Savage mythos that feel a little odd, given what's gone before. Apparently Doc has studied escapology and, at one, point had replicated every one of Houdini's escape routines. That's convenient. And one memorable scene in a vault deliberately has the Man in Bronze standing still, his hair brushing the ceiling that's identified as being 6' 8" high. That's a little taller than we've been led to believe Doc to be thus far.
And he introduced me to a new word too. Ham, we are told, is "frequently the cynosure of female eyes", a sentiment that's easy to grasp from context but means someone or something that is the centre of attention. I should use that more often.
Next month, a Lester Dent double bill because I need to catch up a month so should both wrap up 1939 with 'The Dagger in the Sky' and kick off 1940 in 'The Other World'.
Originally posted at the Nameless Zine in August 2022:
https://www.thenamelesszine.org/Voice...
Index of all my Nameless Zine reviews:
https://books.apocalypselaterempire.com/
November 7, 2023
More Scooby Doo than the usual Man of Bronze, Hex is a fun romp through a witch filled Salem that ends exactly how’d you guess.
August 4, 2022
Tied with "Ost" for shortest title of a Doc Savage novel, "Hex" is a ho-hum but, considering its primary writer was William Bogart, surprisingly adequate tale. Main (and by far best) Doc Savage writer Lester Dent prettied up this Halloween-themed adventure set in Massachusetts, home of the Salem witches, of course. Dent's helping hand shows, though he let through some inaccuracies in character description.
In this one, from November 1939, Doc and four of his aides (Long Tom is absent) become embroiled in apparent bewitchings of wealthy movers-and-shakers (and of two aides themselves) at the site of a proposed road project. We'll take a Doc Savage adventure merely being below average if Dent isn't the primary writer. "Hex" is ordinary at best, but there's good stuff here and there. The atmosphere isn't conjured into all it could have been, but there is a wannabe (or be) witch named Hannah and bewitchings (see what I did there?) and a ghost town around which the action revolves. It works OK. Doc and his aides are sort of scattered willy-nilly in this one, but there are some nice moments, including Doc and Renny making an underwater escape while tied up and weighted down, and some particularly rich scenes with Monk. The aide becomes hexed himself and has some good lines involving the delectable female scenery for this novel, June Knight and Doc's beautiful cousin Pat, who this time is along for the adventure at Doc's request and not because she horned in on the action. Monk moons over both of them, dropping the usual delicacy in dealing with Pat. Wonder how Doc felt about Monk wanting to hook up with his cousin.
As a change of pace with witchy/spooky overtones, "Hex" is worth a read if you're not expecting too much (and if you know it's a Bogart title, you shouldn't be). Special shout-out to James Bama's spectacular cover art for the Bantam reprint (moonlit graveyard, witch with cat, Doc holding a bloody weapon ... check!), which gets us in a creepy mood from the jump.
In this one, from November 1939, Doc and four of his aides (Long Tom is absent) become embroiled in apparent bewitchings of wealthy movers-and-shakers (and of two aides themselves) at the site of a proposed road project. We'll take a Doc Savage adventure merely being below average if Dent isn't the primary writer. "Hex" is ordinary at best, but there's good stuff here and there. The atmosphere isn't conjured into all it could have been, but there is a wannabe (or be) witch named Hannah and bewitchings (see what I did there?) and a ghost town around which the action revolves. It works OK. Doc and his aides are sort of scattered willy-nilly in this one, but there are some nice moments, including Doc and Renny making an underwater escape while tied up and weighted down, and some particularly rich scenes with Monk. The aide becomes hexed himself and has some good lines involving the delectable female scenery for this novel, June Knight and Doc's beautiful cousin Pat, who this time is along for the adventure at Doc's request and not because she horned in on the action. Monk moons over both of them, dropping the usual delicacy in dealing with Pat. Wonder how Doc felt about Monk wanting to hook up with his cousin.
As a change of pace with witchy/spooky overtones, "Hex" is worth a read if you're not expecting too much (and if you know it's a Bogart title, you shouldn't be). Special shout-out to James Bama's spectacular cover art for the Bantam reprint (moonlit graveyard, witch with cat, Doc holding a bloody weapon ... check!), which gets us in a creepy mood from the jump.
October 17, 2023
Hex is a "Doc Savage" novel by Kenneth Robeson. Kenneth Robeson was the house name Street and Smith Publications used as the author of their popular Doc Savage novels. Though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent, there were many others who contributed to the series, including:
William G. Bogart
Evelyn Coulson
Harold A. Davis
Lawrence Donovan
Alan Hathway
W. Ryerson Johnson
I love reading these old pulp novels from time to time. I read about 80%+ of the Doc Savage novels when I was a teenager but that was a very long time ago. I have been trying to find them again in the Bantam editions I read in my youth. I have found several of them in used bookstores and have bought several from online aftermarket bookstores.
In this one, Doc Savage and his men are in the thick of it again. The action is classic Doc Savage, filled with good old-fashioned adventure and gadgets that always seem to be there when the hero needs them. You can relax and escape for a little while. A good read in the Doc Savage series.
William G. Bogart
Evelyn Coulson
Harold A. Davis
Lawrence Donovan
Alan Hathway
W. Ryerson Johnson
I love reading these old pulp novels from time to time. I read about 80%+ of the Doc Savage novels when I was a teenager but that was a very long time ago. I have been trying to find them again in the Bantam editions I read in my youth. I have found several of them in used bookstores and have bought several from online aftermarket bookstores.
In this one, Doc Savage and his men are in the thick of it again. The action is classic Doc Savage, filled with good old-fashioned adventure and gadgets that always seem to be there when the hero needs them. You can relax and escape for a little while. A good read in the Doc Savage series.
September 23, 2025
"Hex" is a fast paced adventure that hooks you from the first page. Kenneth Robeson creates an exciting world of mystery and danger with memorable characters and nonstop action. The story blends science fiction and adventure perfectly, making it accessible without being dumbed down.
This is an excellent YA book that doesn't talk down to younger readers while still being thrilling enough for adults. The clean, straightforward writing style keeps the story moving at a great pace.
James Bama's cover art deserves special mention; it's absolutely gorgeous. His photorealistic style perfectly captures the excitement of the story, with bold colors and dynamic composition that makes you want to pick up the book immediately.
A great choice for anyone who enjoys adventure stories, especially young adult readers looking for something with classic pulp energy. Highly recommended.
This is an excellent YA book that doesn't talk down to younger readers while still being thrilling enough for adults. The clean, straightforward writing style keeps the story moving at a great pace.
James Bama's cover art deserves special mention; it's absolutely gorgeous. His photorealistic style perfectly captures the excitement of the story, with bold colors and dynamic composition that makes you want to pick up the book immediately.
A great choice for anyone who enjoys adventure stories, especially young adult readers looking for something with classic pulp energy. Highly recommended.
August 29, 2023
A great Doc Savage book. From the beginning the mood is set. A spooky tale with witches, pixies and hexes. I wanted to live this book. I really wanted to award it five stars, four at the very least. There were some problems with the story, however.
Written by William G Bogart and Lester Dent. Published originally November, 1939.
Written by William G Bogart and Lester Dent. Published originally November, 1939.
May 25, 2023
An engineer in charge of building a superhighway near Salem, Massachusetts seemingly falls under a witch's spell, as do several others. What is really going on? Doc Savage and his crew arrive to get to the bottom of the mystery. Not one of the best Doc Savage adventures, but still entertaining.
October 17, 2024
A pulp novel featuring Doc Savage. The team encounters witchcraft in Salem. Much chaos ensues.
February 24, 2016
Of all the pulp era heroes few stand out above the crowd, Doc Savage is one of these. With his 5 aides and cousin he adventures across the world. Fighting weird menaces, master criminals and evil scientists Doc and the Fab 5 never let you down for a great read. These stories have all you need; fast paced action, weird mystery, and some humor as the aides spat with each other. My highest recommendation.
October 18, 2016
A Halloween issue of Doc Savage magazine. Engineers working on a new highway near Salem start going mad, including Doc Savage's sidekick Rennie. When Doc investigates, witches with spooky names (the Screeching Lady of the March!) multiply.It's really very slight, but it worked for me, and the bad guys' special secret weapon is quite neat. But it always feels like a waste when Doc's cousin Patricia shows up and doesn't do much.
December 16, 2014
Starts out well but rapidly gets silly. I saved this one for too long and looked forward to it too much, I suppose.
November 16, 2016
read in summer 1969
December 11, 2016
Definitely one of the stranger of Doc's adventures. Weird actually.... 5 for nostalgia though.
November 22, 2015
Doc Savage #37
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