Tag Archives: Clark Ashton Smith

Rediscovered: Lin Carter (or Not Lin Carter) Annotates Klarkash-Ton

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Don

Got a note from Kristopher Curling along with several pics asking if his recent purchase of The Dark Chateau, published by Arkham House in 1951, contains holograph annotations by Lin Carter. He knows the book comes from Carter’s collection, and … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Primeval Arkham House Ephemera

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Don

John D. Haefele and I, marching deeper into the thick of the Arkham ephemera jungle, plug away on a book intended to cover each and every Item from the Classic Years when August Derleth and Donald Wandrei were in the … Continue reading →

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Mort: Richard L. Tierney

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Don

Word made the rounds that Richard L. Tierney died on February first — I heard the news in an email from Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes, who just put up an obit blogging for Castalia House. Dick made it to age … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Some Arkham in the House

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Don

Courtesy an eagle-eyed bud of mine, ever perched over eBay, I landed a couple of Items of Arkham House ephemera I needed just a couple of days ago. If you consult the list I did of the classic era Derleth-Wandrei … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: Wolf and Greek Go All Primeval

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Don

Our pal Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes has a dictum — either the product of his own profound deliberations or picked up over shots of whiskey in a seedy bar held together with vines and rattan somewhere on the outskirts of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Windy Reportage

Posted on September 19, 2021 by Don

Tom Krabacher sent along a few notes on the recent Windy City pulp convention, held on the outskirts of Chicago. He had a posse lined up to roam the aisles, but for various reasons several bailed on him close to … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: So Far, So Good

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Don

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 →

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Rediscovered: The Last Stand of the First Abode

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Don

On page 241 of The Literary World of San Francisco & its Environs I mention in passing the old Gaylord farmhouse outside Auburn, California, where Clark Ashton Smith was born January 13, 1893. Recent chatter spread the word that the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Time for Derleth

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Don

August Derleth is beginning to get renewed evaluation — and not just from our good pal John D. Haefele. Just noticed an article by G. W. Thomas that blurbs Derleth’s 132 appearances in the magazine Weird Tales. Provides a list, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Andrew Lang

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Don

Continuing today’s Autograph Hound Super-Sunday theme of Lost Race — sometimes known as Lost World, guess the fine line drawn depends on how exotic the race involved in the action may be, but the baseline is the Lost part — we bring … Continue reading →

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