
Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. -

The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



-

Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
-
Tag Archives: Famous Someday
Rediscovered: A Little Birthday Treat
For birthday 119 for Robert E. Howard — should he have lived so long — Brian Leno roars into Autograph Hound action once more, pulling an original photo of REH’s father, actually signed by Doc Howard, from the time-lost ruins … Continue reading
Posted in News, REH
Tagged Autographs, Baker Kids, Brian Leno, Doc Howard, Famous Someday, L. Sprague de Camp, Vera Baker
Rediscovered: Famous Someday
Although available only for a month and change, Famous Someday now has been officially rediscovered by Evan Lewis for his entry in today’s Forgotten Book Friday roundup. FBF is a deal where 20ish bloggers pick a book, some really forgotten and some … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Evan Lewis, Famous Someday, Forgotten Book Friday, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: Famous No.1, then Leno No.1, then. . .
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
Posted in News, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Famous Someday, Kindle, Morgan Holmes, Strother Martin, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: Famous Someday No. 1
Damn. I slept through it! When I woke up today I thought to check to see if the eBook Famous Someday, which I blurbed yesterday, had made it to any kind of sales ranking on Amazon. Turns out it’s doing … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack
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
Posted in REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Famous Someday, Kindle, Morgan Holmes, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press





