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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
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Tag Archives: A. Merritt
Rediscovered: Abe & Roy
Autograph Hound Saturday once more, and that notable maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno brings the John Hancock of the famous pulpster Abraham Merritt back to These Mean Streets. Plus the artist Roy Hunt also makes a return, after showing up … Continue reading
Rediscovered: So Far, So Good
I told Brian Leno he could do a formal review for Mean Streets of John D. Haefele’s Lovecraft: The Great Tales whenever he finishes. But of course, no one will be sitting down and reading that monster of litcrit in … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Brian Leno, Clark Ashton Smith, Farnsworth Wright, Frank Owen, Hazel Heald, Henry S. Whitehead, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Rob Roehm, S.T. Joshi, Weird Tales, William Hope Hodgson
Rediscovered: Excerpts of Nostalgic Book Talk
Kicking the can around in email with noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook, we hit a thread of wishing we’d been alive back when, getting new stories by favorite writers hot off the press. It began as Kevin was … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Adventure, Alfred Clark, Anthony Wall, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Arthur Machen, Austin Hall, Black Mask, Bram Stoker, Charles B. Stilson, Cthulhu Mythos, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elak, Eugene Shade Bisbee, Francis Stevens, Frank Aubrey, George Allan England, H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Harold Lamb, Homer Eon Flint, John Taine, Kevin Cook, Pearson's, Perley Poore Sheehan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stevenson, The Strand Magazine, Thongor, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: A. Merritt’s Ishtar
The fantasy writer A. Merritt was born on this date in 1884 and to commemorate the occasion Kevin Cook, noted book and pulp collector, decided to trot out yet another John Hancock from his trove of Merritt signatures. Kevin spills … Continue reading
Rediscovered: A. Merritt
For Autograph Hound Super-Sunday (Revisited), Kevin Cook dips into his archival material to do a showcase on another of his favorite authors: Abraham Merritt. If you recall, Kevin got interested in the concept and potential ramifications of the autograph weekends … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Autographs, Frank A. Munsey, Kevin Cook, Robert Davis, Seven Footprints to Satan
Rediscovered: The Munsey Trove
In his coverage of the most recent PulpFest for the Pulp Flakes blog, I noticed Walker Martin make this comment: “Now you might wonder what I bought and sold. As usual my best seller were the cancelled checks that Bob Weinberg … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Autographs, Brian Leno, Frank A. Munsey, Kevin Cook, Popular Publications, Pulp Flakes, PulpFest, Robert Weinberg, Scott Hartshorn, Walker Martin
Rediscovered: Kevin Cook on Full Auto
And Kevin Cook — noted pulp and book collector — couldn’t resist sending in some remarks on the subject of autographs. I’m fairly sure Brian Leno has a bigger auto collection, but when it comes to pulp era signers, Kevin may … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, All Around, All-Story, Autographs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kevin Cook, Pulps, Seven Footprints to Satan, Weird Tales
Sinister Cinema: Conjure Wife
On the Fritz Leiber Tour the other day I was asked if any movies have been made from his books. Sure. A few, at least — topped by no less than three versions of his excellent supernatural horror novel Conjure … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged A. Merritt, Conjure Wife, Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber Tour, Halloween, John D. Haefele, Lon Chaney Jr., Lovecraft, The Walking Dead, Weird Woman
Two-Gun Bob: First, You Crack Argosy
When the article “Conan the Argonaut” appeared in The Cimmerian in 2008, one of the inset quotes, selected to illustrate the mindset that essay argues against, came from Lin Carter in his 1973 book on fantasy literature, Imaginary Worlds, where he … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", "Conan vs. Conantics", A. Merritt, Brian Leno, Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Harold Lamb, Harry Morris, Imaginary Worlds, John Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Nyctalops, Otis Adelbert Kline, PulpFest, Pulps, Rafael Sabatini, Ray Cummings, Talbot Mundy, Tarzan, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales