Tag Archives: Arthur Machen

Frisco Beat: Top of the Heap!

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Don

The Literary World of San Francisco — as I’ve been reporting — is still no.2 on the Amazon bestseller list for travel books about San Francisco as I check the stats today, but yesterday for about 4 hours muscled it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Amazon, Arthur Machen, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, David Drake, John D. Squires, Karl Edward Wagner, Literary World of San Francisco, Lovecraft, M. P. Shiel |

Rediscovered: The Complete Dyson

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Don

When I did the post about doing yet another reread of the Dyson stories by Arthur Machen, I had the nagging thought that I was missing one or more — one, as it turns out. “The Inmost Light” — which … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Arthur Machen, Book Collecting, Deuce Richardson, Dyson, Fritz Leiber, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft |

Hammett: And Machen

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Don

Around Xmas, as I was in the midst of that big reread of H. P. Lovecraft I alluded to a couple of times, I got the urge to do yet another reread on the Dyson stories by Arthur Machen — for … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit | Tagged "The Red Hand", "The Shining Pyramid", Anais Nin, Arthur Machen, Book Collecting, Crypt of Cthulhu, Dyson, Henry Miller, Knopf yellowback Machens, Lovecraft, Mark Hopkins, Raymond Chandler, The Dain Curse, The Hill of Dreams, The Three Imposters, Vincent Starrett |

Rediscovered: The Shiel Biographies

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Don

By this time last year I had poked my way through the first two of three projected volumes covering the life of M. P. Shiel, and happened to bump into Vince Emery while I was reading along. “Give me one … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged Arthur Machen, H. G. Wells, Harold Billings, Humanities Research Center, Including Murder, M. P. Shiel, Redonda, Vince Emery |

Rediscovered: Redonda!

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Don

I’m confident it was my pal Steve Eng who brought M. P. Shiel fully to my attention some thirty years ago. Like anyone else interested in horror and fantastic literature, I’d have come across the name already, courtesy at least … Continue reading →