Tag Archives: E. Hoffmann Price

Rediscovered: Carroll John Who? H. Warner What?

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Don

On the tour in recent years (three or four years ago, five, not twenty years ago, not thirty-five) a woman mentioned that her uncle — or maybe he was her great-uncle — like Hammett also had written for the pulp Black Mask. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Some John Hancockery from Brackett and Hamilton

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Don

To give him a different sort of wrap for his multi-part series on the Centennial of Leigh Brackett, I sent Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes some images from a copy of the program book for the 1964 World Science Fiction Convention — … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Thumbing the Hammers in the Gun-Dummy Game

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Don

Hey, can you tell that I am deep into Will Murray’s history of the pulp western, Wordslingers? A history of a genre, an encyclopedia of mini-biographies of a thousand and one fictioneers, and a debate between the proponents of the … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: The Flivver Controversy Erupts!

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Don

After my post yesterday about flivvers being Fords they added “A Note from the Editor” to the Word of the Week on Two-Gun Raconteur, which reads: Apparently Don Herron has his ignition wires crossed in a recent post on his … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: “My Pal HPL”

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Don

Today is birthday 125 for good old H. P. Lovecraft — and that landmark anniversary was the excuse to jet off to PulpFest and participate in the panels on the Cthulhu Mythos (HPL’s major claim to fame) and Weird Tales … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: More Contrappasso

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Don

Recently a 1977 issue of The Diversifier that I’d never seen before passed through my hands. It included a memoir of Edmond Hamilton by E. Hoffmann Price and a two-pager I hadn’t known about, in which Fritz Leiber discussed his tribulations … Continue reading →

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Tour: Fritz Leiber on Sunday October 28

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Don

I’m running late, White Rabbit-style, so let’s make this post all business and even skip the illos — if you want to see lots of cool shots of Fritz, hop over to Will Hart’s Flickr archive, especially nice for the annotated … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Lost World of Pulp!

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Don

In less than a week I’m off to PulpFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, with side trips to look up Jim Tully sites in St. Marys plus check out one of the world’s best privately held collections of M. P. Shiel — and … Continue reading →

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Mort: J. Dan Price

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Don

Just heard that J. Dan Price, the only begotten son of pulp fictioneer E. Hoffmann Price, passed away on June 1 — various circumstances delayed the spread of the news. Great guy, he ranked as a raconteur right up there with … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: E. Hoffmann Price

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Don

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 →

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