Tag Archives: Cthulhu Mythos

Rediscovered: Another Perfect Reader for John D. Haefele’s Eldritch Tome

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Don

A brooding rumination on John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos was brought to my attention recently — written by a guy named Jeffery Scott Sims, who is so in tune with the book that he may as well sign … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Dustjackets for Derleth

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Don

Even though we are nearing the end of over four months in release, it is still fun for me to keep track of how A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos by my pal John D. Haefele is doing on the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: That Haefele/Harksen First Edition Hardcover

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Don

You may recall that I had my initial encounter with John D. Haefele — author of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos — back in 2002, when he added his research into Arkham House ephemerae to the stack of notes … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Klarkash-Ton for Hallowe’en

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Don

Toward my seasonal Hallowe’en reading this year, I decided I’d dive back into the eldritch oeuvre of Clark Ashton Smith — it has been far too long since I did any kind of major rereading, though of course I have … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!!! — and Just in Time for Halloween

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Don

The fully revised,  expanded trade paperback edition of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos went live on Amazon yesterday — with the look inside the first thirty or so pages to come in the next few weeks, and the cover … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Weird Tales, Paperbacked and eBooked

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Don

Just the other day Terry Zobeck did up a list of pretty much everything Hammett ever wrote or edited, including a single anthology — of horror fiction. Creeps by Night. Take a gander at the cover for a British paperback reprint of … Continue reading →

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John D. Haefele’s “A Further Look Behind S.T. Joshi’s Review”

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Don

“I now see that John Haefele,” S.T. Joshi observes on his blog for August 31, “has written an angry response to my review of his Look at the Derleth Mythos [sic, since Joshi gets the title wrong].” Really? Angry? Anyone who … Continue reading →

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Smackdown: Haefele’s Back, with the Eldritch Truth

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Don

A new article by John D. Haefele on Lovecraft’s last story sale to Weird Tales, in his lifetime, just got picked up for inclusion in Lovecraft Annual no. 7 — I haven’t read any of the other contents, but the Haefele … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: An Untidy Mountain of Earth and Other Madnesses

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Don

Over on the Two-Gun Raconteur blog our good pal Brian Leno — henceforth to be known as Brian Leno, the Famous Masochist — just posted a review of the new Cthulhu Mythos novel by S.T. Joshi. Pretty much all of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Of Derleth and Dreamland

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Don

Until I came to San Francisco in 1974, I had lived most of my life only 70 miles from Nashville. I believe it was a couple of years later, during a two year stint in St. Paul, when I landed a copy of the weird … Continue reading →

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