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Best known for the eerie short story To Sup With the Devil, this mid-century pulp writer left behind a compact but memorable piece of fantasy fiction that still finds readers today.
Myron I. Scholnick is a little-known American author whose name is chiefly associated with the short story To Sup With the Devil. That story first appeared in Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy in January 1954, and it has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep his work in circulation for modern readers.
Available catalog and library-style sources point to a very small surviving public record of his fiction, which suggests he may have published only a limited amount of speculative work, or at least that only part of it is easy to trace today. Even so, To Sup With the Devil has endured because of its dark premise and classic magazine-era science-fantasy feel.
A likely later record connects a Myron Scholnick with a long academic career at Towson University, where an archival photo identifies Professor Myron Scholnick as a history faculty member who served from 1967 to 2004. Because the surviving author information is sparse, that connection should be treated with some caution.