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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: Argosy
Rediscovered: More 1565 Siege of Malta
The theme of the island of Malta suddenly jumped up and took over the week here on These Mean Streets. By luck, Kevin Cook had a Malta appropriate signature in, and ready to show off on Autograph Hound Saturday. But for Autograph … Continue reading
Rediscovered: H. Bedford Jones
What do you think? Can Brian Leno deal the hand on yet another weekend of autograph excitement? Looks like it. He just popped in enough material to bury me for an hour or so, noting, “A fun morning for me, … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Argosy, Autographs, Brian Leno, Donald M. Grant, Frank A. Munsey, H. Bedford-Jones
Rediscovered: Paul Stahr
For Autograph Hound Super-Sunday what John Hancock could our own maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno pull from his trove? You may recall that a couple of weekends back he presented the signature of pulpster Anthony M. Rud — if you … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Edwin Baird Inscription
It’s Autograph Hound Saturday again, and we all know the biggest Autograph Hound making paw prints on These Mean Streets is none other than Brian Leno. Given this opportunity to display a few of the John Hancocks in his trove, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Argosy, Autographs, Brian Leno, Edward Arnold, Edwin Baird, T.C. O'Donnell, The Heart of Virginia Keep, Weird Tales
Two-Gun Bob: PulpFest 2012
Among other things PulpFest is going to commemorate this year will be the eightieth anniversary of the coming of Robert E. Howard’s Conan — exploding into the culture in the December 1932 issue of Weird Tales. In many ways, and given that Howard … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged Argosy, Brian Leno, Conan, Fritz Leiber, Harry Otto Fischer, John D. Squires, Karl Edward Wagner, Kid Dula, PulpFest, Pulps, Rusty Burke, Steve Eng, Sword-and-Sorcery, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: E. Hoffmann Price
Will Hart has been piling up a Visual-Bibliography for the prolific pulp fictioneer Edgar Hoffmann Price on Flickr — photos, colorful magazine covers, some stories and letters. If you’ve gumshoed along on the Hammett tour, chances are good that you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH, Tour
Tagged Argosy, E. Hoffmann Price, Lovecraft, Pulps, Weird Tales, Will Hart
Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today
How about another chunk out of the long essay “Conan the Argonaut” by me and Morgan Holmes to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of H. P. Lovecraft? Straight from the word doc, pretty self-explanatory: After the First … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Farnsworth Wright, L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, S.T. Joshi, Sam Moskowitz, Weird Tales, Zane Grey
Rediscovered: An Aside on John Carter of Mars
In 2008, under my occasional nom de guerre George Knight, I collaborated with Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes on “Conan the Argonaut” for the August issue of The Cimmerian, V5n4 — covering the idea that if he had lived Robert E. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Knight, John Carter, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, Tarzan, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
