Theodore Roscoe
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Theodore Roscoe (February 20, 1906 – May 29, 1992) was an American biographer and writer of adventure, fantasy novels and stories. Roscoe's stories appeared in pulp magazines including Argosy, Wings, Flying Stories, Far East Adventure Stories, Fight Stories, Action Stories and Adventure. A collection of his stories, The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1981. Roscoe was commissioned by the United States Naval Institute to write the detailed and massive histories United States Submarine Operations in World War II (1949) and United States Destroyer Operations in World War II (1953). He subsequently wrote several other books on naval history including The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England (1972)
Books
The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England
Describes the incidents at the beginning of the Civil War that nearly led the United States into another war with Britain.
The Lincoln assassination, April 14, 1865
Describes Lincoln's assassination, traces the disclosure of the murder conspiracy, and discusses the many clues that were never pursued which still remain to puzzle history.
Toughest in the Legion - the Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion, Volume 2
Tin cans
Two teenagers conflict over what to do with the magic tin can they discover in the town dump.
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Dead men working in the cane fields / W. B. Seabrook After nightfall / David A. Riley Mission to Margal / Hugh B. Cave The Cairnwell horror / Chet Williamson Crawling madness / Arthur Leo Zagat Treading the maze / Lisa Tuttle Red angels / Karen Haber Later / Michael Marshall Smith White Zombie / Vivian Meik Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey The Graveyard rats / Henry Kuttner The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allen Poe Feeding the dead inside / Yvonne Navarro Ballet Negre / Charles Birkin Dead right / Geoffrey A. Landis The Taking of Mr. Bill / Graham Masterton The Grave gives up / Jack D'Arcy Herbert West-Reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft Maternal instinct / Robert Bloch Bringing the family / Kevin J. Anderson Mess hall / Richard Laymon Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu While zombies walked / Thorp McClusky April flowers, November harvest / Mary A. Turzillo The Old man and the dead / Mort Castle Jumbee / Henry S. Whitehead Marbh bheo / Peter Tremayne The Hollow man / Thomas Burke They bite / Anthony Boucher Come one, come all / Gahan Wilson It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell The Ghouls / R. Chetwynd-Hayes The Corpse-Master / Seabury Quinn The Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford Vengeance of the living dead / Ralston Shields The Song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg Men without blood / John H. Knox The Broken fang / Uel Key It / Theodore Sturgeon League of the Grateful Dead / Day Keene Love child / Garry Kilworth Corpses on parade / Edith and Ejler Jacobson Where there's a will / Richard and Christian Matheson The Dead / Michael Swanwick The Song of the slaves / Manly Wade Wellman The Outsider / H.P. Lovecraft Eat me / Robert McCammon Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale Pigeons from hell / Robert E. Howard Live people don't understand / Scott Edelman The House in the Magnolias / August Derleth and Mark Schorer [Home delivery]( / Stephen King Dance of the damned / Arthur J. Burks Z is for zombie / Theodore Roscoe