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Category Archives: REH
Rediscovered: The Leno Library Goes Skull Island
Brian Leno popped in a pic a couple of days ago. “Just wanted to show you my new purchase,” Brian said. “I think it’s cool as hell and it’s the right Kong — not the later bullshit. Judging by his … Continue reading
Rediscovered: De Camp the Fan
Autograph Hound Saturday yet again, and we bring our old pal L. Sprague de Camp back with another John Hancock. He also does the weirdest personal “I” that I (imagine a regular I) recall offhand. De Camp of course mightily … Continue reading
Posted in Film, REH
Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Frank Frazetta, L. Sprague de Camp, Lee Van Cleef, Lin Carter
Lit Suicides: Fourth of July
As I’ve mentioned, lately I’ve been pulling scattered emails by or about the late Dennis McMillan into a new folder. Need to find the snail mail, since it contains an early DMac sales catalog which I want to reference in … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Lit, News, REH
Tagged 4th of July, Janwillem van der Vettering, literaray suicides, Thomas M. Disch
Rediscovered: More Leno Library
Brian Leno has come into a group of display cabinets and now is working to fill them up. I imagine he’ll juggle some of the stuff around again, eventually. Maybe have one devoted to his Jack the Ripper collection. Or … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: Mak Morn Meets Kull
I bought and read the First Passage collection with the earlier drafts of well-known Howard stories. It seemed to me that REH was at many times just trying to get the story down on the page, and then all the poetical turns … Continue reading
Rediscovered: The Library of Brian — Inspiration, or Warning!?!
Brain Leno has a story about when he was a kid in Bismarck, beginning to buy paperbacks. He’d sit in front of the small bookcase he shelved them on and savor his library. His father made the bookstand “out of … Continue reading
Rediscovered: The Latest Life
Our pal Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes just dropped his new review of the latest biography of Robert E. Howard on the Arkhaven Comics site. Keeping his hand in, even as he populates his own Substack site with the extensive archives … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Gene and Joe
Autograph Hound Saturday. Courtesy Brian Leno, today let’s spotlight a favorite writer here on These Mean Streets. “Some good news,” Brian reports, “I picked up a signed Eugene Cunningham’s Texas Sheriff for 20 bucks. No dj but it supposedly has … Continue reading
Rediscovered: The Morgman’s Long Trek Across the Blogosphere — a One-Morgman Wandering of the Tribes
Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes let me know that he’s got a post up on the George Sterling caveman novel I once reviewed here, and in which I invoked The Morgman Dictum. Only now he shows up on Substack. You may … Continue reading
