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A little-known writer of mid-century fantasy and horror, he is remembered today for a single darkly witty tale, "To Sup With the Devil." His small surviving footprint only adds to the eerie charm around his work.
Very little biographical information about Myron I. Scholnick is easy to confirm, but his name survives through "To Sup With the Devil," a short story published in the January 1954 issue of Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy. The story has remained visible through later preservation projects, including Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.
What can be said with confidence is that Scholnick belongs to the long tail of pulp-era speculative fiction writers whose work appeared in magazines and then nearly vanished from view. That makes him an interesting figure for curious listeners: not a famous genre giant, but one of the many voices who helped fill out the imaginative world of 1950s fantasy and science fiction.
Because reliable sources on his life are scarce, it is best to treat him as an obscure author known primarily through this surviving story rather than through a well-documented career. In a way, that obscurity suits the mood of his fiction—strange, compact, and just mysterious enough to linger.