pulps
True Strange Stories, March 1929
This pulp magazine issue of *True Strange Stories* contains first-person narratives and sensational accounts presented as true experiences. Featured pieces include "A Destiny Stronger Than Love Claimed My Bride" (Pierre Bernard, told to Sylvia B. Saltzberg), recounting an actress who became a nun; "The First Time That I Died" (Heinrich Meyer, told to Mildred Hardenbergh), about a man reborn at thirty-one; "The Mad Mystic and the American Beauty" (Alice Gregory Stafford, told to Franklin Holt), linking a girl's fate to Russia's mysterious figure; "I Had a Fortune On My Back" (Peter Durvant, told to Kenneth Holmes); Alan Hynd's "Two Fierce Spirits Warred Within His Soul," a Jekyll-and-Hyde narrative from life; "The Love That Lost a Throne" (Hugo Leibnitz, told to Henry Lieferant), featuring a prince choosing between love and rulership; "Time Nor Vengeance" by Captain Jack MacLeod; "The Bleeding Mammy" by F. M. Pettee, concerning an Egyptian princess's curse; and "The State Electrocuted Me and Yet I Live" (Antonio Sforza, told to Marshall P. Thompson). Additional pieces address paranormal phenomena, criminal justice, and medical anomalies.