Tag Archives: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Rediscovered: Further Smackdown for Zane Grey!

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Don

Who knew that my brief account of visiting the Zane Grey Pueblo on Santa Catalina would rouse my occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno to relive a dreaded literary memory, and follow me into the ring to beat up some on … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged August Derleth, Brian Leno, Cynthia Anne Parker, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frederick Russell Burnham, Graham-Tewksbury Feud, H. L. Mencken, H. Rider Haggard, Lovecraft, Mormons, Nook, Pleasant Valley War, Quanah Parker, Real West, Robert E. Howard Library, Sax Rohmer, Steve Eng, The Dark Barbarian, Tom Horn, Zane Grey, Zane Grey Pueblo |

Rediscovered: Zane Grey on Kindle

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Don

A couple of years ago I got a Kindle as a gift from Vince Emery, so I could check out how The Dashiell Hammett Tour book looked in that format — now, suddenly, highly ironic. On my own, I probably … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elmore Leonard, Fu-Manchu, Hammett Tour Book, James Fenimore Cooper, James Reasoner, Kindle, Robert E. Howard Library, Sax Rohmer, Steve Eng, The Dark Barbarian, Vince Emery, Zane Grey, Zane Grey Pueblo |

Tour: No Kindle No More

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Don

Lately I’ve been reading various books on Kindle, figuring I may as well keep kind of current — and I enjoy that science fiction vibe of doing a reread on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars exactly one hundred … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Tour | Tagged A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hammett Tour Book, John Carter, Kindle, Nook, Vince Emery |

Hammett: Another Bio in the Works (Plus More on John Carter of Mars)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Don

Just got a note from Nathan Ward, author of the quite hard-boiled Dark Harbor, a history of the head-busting and mayhem that ruled the New York docks and provided the back story for Brando to chew the scenery in On the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, News | Tagged Clash of the Titans, Dark Harbor, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter, Marlon Brando, Nathan Ward, On the Waterfront, Senator Joseph McCarthy |

Sinister Cinema: John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Don

Keeping my Memorial March theme going, I caught John Carter yesterday so I could review it today — for the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1950. Brilliant adaptation of the source material, fast-paced, funny (I’m amazed … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit | Tagged Bill Crider, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, Gods of Mars, Indiana Jones, John Carter, Pauline Kael, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Wanderer |

Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Don

How about another chunk out of the long essay “Conan the Argonaut” by me and Morgan Holmes to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of H. P. Lovecraft? Straight from the word doc, pretty self-explanatory: After the First … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Farnsworth Wright, L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, S.T. Joshi, Sam Moskowitz, Weird Tales, Zane Grey |

Rediscovered: An Aside on John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Don

In 2008, under my occasional nom de guerre George Knight, I collaborated with Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes on “Conan the Argonaut” for the August issue of The Cimmerian, V5n4 — covering the idea that if he had lived Robert E. … Continue reading →