Monthly Archives: January 2016

Rediscovered: Jeopardy! Pulls Another Hammett Clew

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Don

Before I forget to mention it, yet another entry in the ongoing saga of the quiz show Jeopardy! riffling through Hammett’s life and work for clews. He’s not as much of a constant as the Periodic Table of Elements or … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Some John Hancockery from Brackett and Hamilton

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Don

To give him a different sort of wrap for his multi-part series on the Centennial of Leigh Brackett, I sent Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes some images from a copy of the program book for the 1964 World Science Fiction Convention — … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Lovecraft and Race

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Don

Race Williams, that is. Terry Zobeck just updated me on his Pilgrim’s Progress through the Lovecraft reading list I gave him, and it turns out that my blurb for Them That Lives By Their Guns by Carroll John Daly sold … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Life of Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Don

Mere months after putting the wraps to Hobgoblin Apollo, Donald Sidney-Fryer has placed his autobio with Hippocampus Press and they’re offering it at half-off — I think that is the presale price.  The sample cover is an early draft version, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Life and Death for the Boxers

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Don

Boxing is in the air I’m breathing this weekend. Need to drop in for a birthday party for my pal Floyd Salas, who is hitting 85 years on the Mean Streets — and some of the streets he went up and down were unquestionably … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Into the Ring

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Don

You haven’t heard the last of Nathan Ward on These Mean Streets — but you knew that. And make that Edgar Nominee Nathan Ward. Yeah, Nathan’s The Lost Detective  — his bio of Hammett — just made the cut for the Edgar … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Podcast from Arkham Country

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Don

No doubt I shoulda/woulda done a post yesterday for the anniversary of Hammett’s death in 1961, but I got a request close to the last minute to join a podcast about August Derleth and the Cthulhu Mythos for The Lovecraft eZine. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Lovecraft Initiate Reading List

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Don

When Terry Zobeck told me he’d picked up a Complete Stories of H.P. Lovecraft, I quickly mocked up a reading list to sell him on The Old Gent — a list of thirteen stories and one dream fragment. I could … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Predictive Fate of Young Belknapius

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Don

Image above: Frank Belknap Long, left, and H.P. Lovecraft clowning around for the camera. Terry Zobeck just told me that he picked up a Complete Stories of Lovecraft on January 3, after seeing all the references to HPL here on … Continue reading →

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FLIVVER: The Robert E. Howard WORD FOR 2015

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Don

Our Occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno was surfing the web, checking on info on old time boxing, and stumbled across a great little article on cars and F. Scott Fitzgerald — with a nice section on flivvers. As Brian says, … Continue reading →

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