Category Archives: News

Rediscovered: Another Green Something Breathing

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Don

Remember when bookseller and collector Paul Dobish discovered that the Stanley McNail poetry collection Something Breathing was bound in two variants of green cloth? “Until recently,” Paul tells me, “all of the copies of the Arkham House first edition that … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: And 50 Years Ago

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Don

Back in 1974 I had my first review published in issue 9 of the Harry Morris, Jr. zine Nyctalops, which will make it 50 Years Worth of selected essays and reviews when collected, crammed into two eBook LitCrit MegaPacks. Guessing, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Willeford’s Cockfighter

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Don

Fifty years slips past when you’re not even looking. For example, how long ago was it that Warren Oates in Cockfighter hit the silver screen? Fifty years? Correct you are. Based on the novel by Charles Willeford. The blurbage for … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Know The Shadow. . .

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Don

Check out that great Chinatown alley. Can’t you just see Lon Chaney as a vicious legless Lord of the Underworld creeping over the stone bricks, enrapt in savage dreams of subjugating the city? But Chaney kept his lair in San … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Prowling Burritt Alley

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Don

I guess it was in 2021 when I shot some footage with Duane and Rachel Anderson of Travel by the Book TV. Took them awhile, but they’ve got about 20 minutes now up on YouTube, touring Hammett sites in San … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Couple of Walla Walla Footnotes for The Memoli Thread

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Don

Iris Odonata sent me a few additional tidbits on her Dad, Joe Memoli, Made Man — and longtime figure in Oakland, with his restaurants and extracurricular activities. Memoli’s incarceration in Walla Walla inspired me to send Iris a link to … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Return of Joe Memoli

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Don

If you’ve got a long memory, you may recall that Iris Odonata — daughter of Joe Memoli, Made Man — once asked for a few points about him I once wrote be corrected. No sweat. Happy to do it. She … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: More Derleth Bibliography

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Don

Check out the latest book from John D. Haefele, if you have an interest in August Derleth or Lovecraft or the general Arkham House landscape. Or if you’re simply one of those people who enjoy plunging into a meaty bibliography. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Return of Arthur O. Friel

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Don

We haven’t had an Autograph Hound Super-Sunday rollout in awhile, and I wasn’t expecting Arthur O. Friel to be the guy scribbling the old John Hancock. From everything I’ve heard, Friel signatures — much less Friel inscriptions — are rare. … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Return of The Woman Chaser

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Don

Joe McSpadden dropped a dime to let me know that the Charles Willeford movie The Woman Chaser returns to the Alamo Drafthouse on Monday, February 19 at 7:15pm. Great chance to catch it on a big screen. Joe produced the … Continue reading →

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