Monthly Archives: October 2018

Sinister Cinema: Borland’s Mark

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Don

You know that Brian Leno collects autographs constantly, but I’m sure he gets an added kick out of the hunt if he can spin a seasonal angle out of it. He tells me that the autographed photo above is “something I … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: That Cosmic Piping of a Flute. . .

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Don

John D. Haefele and I have been batting chapters of his upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales back and forth like we’re in some champeen tennis match or something. I’m doing the editing, and after I went under the knife earlier … Continue reading →

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Tour: Two Sundays in November

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Don

One Sunday tour left in October, then two more in November to wrap up the year. . . . The pic above came from Mario Ruiz, and he dates it to 2014, when he rolled down from Portland to walk the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Tough Guy Amidst Books

Posted on October 20, 2018 by Don

Woke up today to find Nathan Ward had dropped a link on me to his latest tidbit on CrimeReads, of which he says: “Has nothing to do with Hammett or the (newly discovered by the NY Times) Tenderloin. Thought you … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Klarkash-Ton and Brian McNaughton

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Don

Kevin Cook, pulp and book collector, recently retired from the New York City scene to a new home in the South. Over the garage he’s had built a library to display the old collection, the first time in his adult … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Famous No.1, then Leno No.1, then. . .

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

After I blurbed that my new eBook Famous Someday got to no.1 on the Amazon list for Kindle — sub-category horror, sub-sub-category litcrit on horror — I realized that it probably hadn’t been the actual no.1. It was no.1 in the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: “Heavy Metal” — The Term

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

Last week I was half-reading/half-skimming John Locke’s new book The Thing’s Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales — life is short, so any clump of pages covering the ancestral background of Otis Adelbert Kline and company I let my … Continue reading →

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Tour: Mentioned in the NYT Again

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

Or so I’m told. After the tour yesterday I dropped in on the Second Sunday gathering of local f&sf fans — the fanzine fans of yesteryear — since this round it was in the Elks Lodge bar near where the walk ends … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Famous Someday No. 1

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Don

Damn. I slept through it! When I woke up today I thought to check to see if the eBook Famous Someday, which I blurbed yesterday, had made it to any kind of sales ranking on Amazon. Turns out it’s doing … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Don

Yesterday the eBook Famous Someday popped on Kindle — another Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack from The Cimmerian Press, but this time instead of litcrit the concentration is on biography. Interviews with people who knew REH. Investigations into books from the library of … Continue reading →

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