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C. Shook
A little mysterious and pleasantly hard to pin down, this writer is linked to both a 1942 science-fiction short story and later regional trivia books. The scattered record gives C. Shook an old-pulp, hard-to-catalog charm.
1 Audiobook
The band played on
by C. Shook
About the author
C. Shook is a hard-to-document author whose name appears on "The Band Played On," a science-fiction story originally published in Astonishing Stories in June 1942 and now available through Project Gutenberg.
The name also appears on later books including "Only in Texas" and "Only in Virginia Pa," both credited to C. Shook and R. Shook. Some catalog records connect "Only in Texas" with Carrie Shook, which suggests that the initial may stand for a fuller name, but the available sources are too inconsistent to confirm that with confidence.
Because so little reliable biographical information is readily available, C. Shook remains more visible through the works themselves than through a documented life story. That makes this author an interesting figure for listeners who enjoy forgotten magazine fiction and lightly elusive literary history.