Monthly Archives: October 2025

Rediscovered: A Ghost-Seer for Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Don

Leading up to Halloween I finally picked up my 1998 Ash-Tree Press edition of Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice and Claude Askew and read through. A solid set of eight British occult detective tales, all published in two months — … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Alice and Claude Askew, Ash-Tree Press, E.G. Swain, Hugh Lamb, Jack Adrian, M.P. Dare, Richard Dalby, The Great War, William Hope Hodgson |

Rediscovered: Buford Pusser

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Don

Autograph Hound Saturday once again, and we spotlight a famous lawman. When I was in college at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, I heard Buford Pusser would be signing clubs at a Ford dealership across town. Growing up … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, News | Tagged Autographs, Breaker Morant, Brian Leno, Buford Pusser, Buford Pusser Museum, Joe Don Baker, MTSU, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Walking Tall |

Hammett: More Spadework from Coggins

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Don

Mark Coggins drops me a note to say, “I’ve a second Spade story, “The Russian Egg” in Eclectica Magazine which follows immediately from the first. “It has a little to say about the backstory of Gutman’s daughter.” Mark also supplies … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, News | Tagged Mark Coggins, Rhea Gutman, Sam Spade pastiches |

Mort: Steve Trout

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Don

Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes recently sent word that apparently Steve Trout died sometime last month — “69 years old. Appears to have been Alzheimer’s disease. He must have had one of those aggressive versions that can hit younger, a la … Continue reading →

Posted in REH | Tagged Morgan Holmes, REHupa, Rusty Burke, Steve Eng, Steve Trout, Vern Clark |

Mort: In Memoriam Bruce Townley

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Don

I didn’t mention it at the time, but Bruce Townley died on October 17, 2024 — one of the more brutal endings I know of, fell in his apartment on Washington near Polk, couldn’t get up (yeah, just like the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Frisco, News | Tagged Bruce Townley |

Rediscovered: Pirate Peake

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Don

Autograph Hound Saturday once more, and we enlist the services of the most maniacal collector of John Hancocks we know, none other than Brian Leno. Brian’s been updating me over the last few months on some of the autos rolling … Continue reading →