
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



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

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

Willeford
The Book-
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Tag Archives: Henry Kuttner
Rediscovered: Kornbluth
How about another Autograph Hound Saturday? It’s been awhile, and on the side the topic came up of authors who have rare signatures — if you’ve got enough loot laying around, you can shell it out but the autos that … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Autographs, Brian Leno, C. M. Kornbluth, Edwin Baird, Henry Kuttner, Henry S. Whitehead, James Tiptree Jr, Thomaas Pynchon, Zenna Henderson
Rediscovered: C. L. Moore
For this Autograph Hound Saturday the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook has chosen to spotlight C. L. Moore, who died on this date in 1987. His half-shelf of Moore hardcover titles appears above courtesy the intrepid Victoria Cook … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Kevin Cook, World Fantasy Convention
Rediscovered: Lovecraft — the Reason There’s Arkham Ephemera
If we’re celebrating John D. Haefele’s landmark article on Modern Arkham House Ephemera in the September/October issue of Firsts (with the checklist of items to follow soon in the November/December issue) — and we are — then how about bringing … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, Autographs, Book Collecting, Dr. Syntax, Firsts, Henry Kuttner, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, William Combe
Rediscovered: Of Derleth and Dreamland
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
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, REH
Tagged Alan Gullette, Ambrosia, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, Henry Kuttner, Joe T. Soshi, John D. Haefele, July 4, Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft, M.R. James, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert M. Price, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Weird Tales





