Tag Archives: Brian Leno

Sinister Cinema: Borland’s Mark

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Don

You know that Brian Leno collects autographs constantly, but I’m sure he gets an added kick out of the hunt if he can spin a seasonal angle out of it. He tells me that the autographed photo above is “something I … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Famous No.1, then Leno No.1, then. . .

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

After I blurbed that my new eBook Famous Someday got to no.1 on the Amazon list for Kindle — sub-category horror, sub-sub-category litcrit on horror — I realized that it probably hadn’t been the actual no.1. It was no.1 in the … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Don

Yesterday the eBook Famous Someday popped on Kindle — another Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack from The Cimmerian Press, but this time instead of litcrit the concentration is on biography. Interviews with people who knew REH. Investigations into books from the library of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Rob Roehm on Previous Discovery of “Racial Standpoint”

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Don

Just got in a note from Rob Roehm, a Big Name Fan in Robert E. Howard circles in recent years, tireless tracker of any mention of the Howard family in courthouses and county records across Texas. My favorite of his … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Front Page in Abilene

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Don

On the heels of popping in the tidbit from the Kansas City Star, Scott Connors turns up another same-day report on Robert E. Howard shooting himself (!!!). “I swear to Gawd,” Scott maintains, “that I am not trying to compete with Brian, … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Earl Baker Ruminations

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Don

The furious round of discoveries about Robert E. Howard that Brian Leno — with Scott Connors close on his heels — turned up over the last couple of weeks got the attention of Leo Grin, editor and publisher of the excellent … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: And Race

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Don

“Mr. Howard usually approaches his stories from the racial standpoint, if you may call it that. That is, human races, and especially those of long ago.” Yeah, the great tribal drifts, the sort of thing I got into in my … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Found Wounded” in Corpus Christi

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Don

I was sitting around, minding my own business, thinking about the closest brushes with death I had back in the days of The San Francisco Suicide Club (1977-1982). When suddenly into the Inbox hops Scott Connors, exclaiming: “Found another one!” … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Two-Gun Bob and Kong

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Don

Brian Leno is going nuts with this Robert E. Howard stuff — and more power to him. He just sent me this postscript to one of his groundbreaking essays in The Cimmerian. If you don’t have a solid collection of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Breaking News in Brownsville

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Don

Brian Leno has unleased a flood of breaking news stories on the suicide of Robert E. Howard, who shot himself in the head and lingered for hours before death. Scott Connors just popped in the notice above, which he found … Continue reading →

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