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The Thrill Book, April 15, 1919

April 1919

Editor Harold Hersey
Cover art Sidney H. Riesenberg
Publisher Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Price $0.10
Pages 52

Vol. 1 No. 4. Cover illustrates "The Hidden Emperor" by George C. Hull. Speculative fiction content only. Data from the Bleilers' "Science-Fiction: The Early Years" and Richard Bleiler's "The Annotated Index to The Thrill Book". Nongenre fiction titles include: "The Thing That Wept" by Charles Fulton Oursler is about a man who thinks a corpse is making a sound but it is actually the noise from a telephone. "Profit by Loss" is a conventional Western. Nongenre poems include: The Death's-Head Mystery by Ronald Olliphant. "The King" by Vail Vernon (a pseudonym of Harold Hersey). "Freedom" by Arnold Tyson (possibly a pseudonym of Harold Hersey).

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
1 Serial Fiction Down the Coast of Shadows (Part 1 of 2) Perley Poore Sheehan
34 Poem Fiction The Haunted House Harry Kemp
37 Short Fiction Fiction The Hidden Emperor George C. Hull
bc Essay Non Fiction Straight from the Shoulder The Editor

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction The Thrill Book - 1919 Harold Hersey
Cover Art Non Fiction The Thrill Book, April 15, 1919 Sidney H. Riesenberg
1 Interior Art Non Fiction Down the Coast of Shadows (Part 1 of 2) uncredited
37 Interior Art Non Fiction The Hidden Emperor uncredited