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Category Archives: REH
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
Rediscovered: Secrets of the Leno Library
In the shot yesterday of (at least a small part of) The Leno Library I noticed the top row of books by or about Robert E. Howard, this month’s birthday boy — and next row down, on left, the Gnome … Continue reading
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Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Creeps by Night, Jeff Jones, Richard S. Shaver, Roads, Roy Krenkel, Seabury Quinn
Rediscovered: The Leno Library
To entertain me, Brian Leno just sent along a shot of a cabinet he set up. Nice. But kind of sad, too — I was thinking Brian had enough books he wouldn’t have to fill in vital space with a … Continue reading
