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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
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Tag Archives: Frank Belknap Long
Rediscovered: More on Block on the Block (with a Young Belknapius Footnote)
I was e-chatting with Terry Zobeck over the copy of Lawrence Block’s rare (and unknown, until Terry reported on it) second book, currently on the block at eBay. Terry said, “He should be noting the artist too, there is a … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Brian Leno, E. Hoffmann Price, eBay, Frank Belknap Long, Gene Bilbrew, Lawrence Block, Terry Zobeck
Rediscovered: Arkham House Ephemera Back on the Block
In the last month or so bidding on items of Arkham House ephemera on eBay has been hot and heavy. The other day I popped a note to my ephemera collecting bud John D. Haefele and reported: “To my surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Firsts, Frank Belknap Long, Harry Morris, John D. Haefele, The Arkham Collector
Rediscovered: Belknapius Comicbookmanius
The other day we ran a 1946 inscription from Frank Belknap Long — Young Belknapius of Lovecraft Circle fame — in a copy of his first release from Arkham House, The Hounds of Tindalos. But it turns out there is … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Belknapius Auto from 1946
We’ve done John Hancocks from Frank Belknap Long before, but recent ones, where it seemed Young Belknapius of Lovecraft Circle fame leaned more toward printing out his name. Kevin Cook, noted book and pulp collector, and I got to wondering … Continue reading
Rediscovered: The Full Belknapius
Then again, I could start a regular Autograph Hound Super-Sunday feature. . . . Brian Leno’s mention yesterday that he picked up his Alfred Galpin/Frank Belknap Long item from the Necronomicon Press catalog of Long’s last library reminded me of something. Leno isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, Willeford
Tagged Autographs, Bill Clinton, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Dennis Etchison, Frank Belknap Long, Necronomicon Press, Reign of Fear, Thomas M. Disch
Rediscovered: Another Derleth-Hater Heard From
Or, make that a self-identified “recovering Derleth-hater.” The “recovering” bit is important to the story. Deuce Richardson kind of tag-teamed with Morgan Holmes yesterday and also put up a birthday post in tribute to August Derleth, of Arkham House, Mycroft & … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged August Derleth, Deuce Richardson, Frank Belknap Long, John D. Haefele, Morgan Holmes
Hammett: And Derleth
Yesterday we had a guest post from Brian Leno, and today John D. Haefele drops back into the action. Want to find out what August Derleth of Arkham House had to do with Creeps by Night, the anthology of weird fiction edited … Continue reading
Rediscovered: “A Hand from the Deep”
To get our surfing safari in the Hallowe’en mood, Guest Blogger Brian Leno popped in a post on an early yarn in Weird Tales from an obscure scribe — but it may have had some trace influence on another obscure scribe of … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Derleth and Little Reviews
If you know much about August Derleth, you know he made his rep equally between writing for pulps such as Weird Tales and doing the more artsy wordplay for Little Reviews — eventually he even combined the two fields of … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Lit, News, Tour
Tagged August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, James Crumley, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Missoula, The Frontier, Weird Tales
