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Tag Archives: John D. Haefele
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
Rediscovered: The Morgman on The Augman, and Others
As any long time reader, surfer or dipper into The Mean Streets may have noticed, I’m not great on anniversaries — yeah, I hop on the annual birth and death days for Hammett, and usually remember Robert E. Howard’s birthday. … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Dwight Frye, John D. Haefele, Morgan Holmes, S.T. Joshi
Rediscovered: Who Knows Solar Pons?
Who knows Pons? Well, John D. Haefele for one. Haefele just put up a post on the Allied Authors blog in which he ruminates in re: August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street. He gets into all manner of esoterica, … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Good Farny v. Bad Farny
Coming up for air after a long plunge into the edit on John Haefele’s magnum opus on Lovecraft, I thought of an observation from John Locke that I spotted awhile back. I guess the coverage of “The Shunned House” in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, John Locke, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Parkinson's disease, The Thing's Incredible!, Weird Tales
Two-Gun Bob: A Quick Meditation on Arriving Too Late on the Scene
Another factor in hitting the Second Sunday fan gathering was that Tom Krabacher — an academic of many years standing, but also a longtime fan (he’s planning on doing a Dum Dum next year for Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiasts) — … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Doom Patrol, Geary Street, Glenn Lord, John D. Haefele, Kim Thanh, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, S.T. Joshi, Second Sunday, Tom Krabacher
Rediscovered: That Cosmic Piping of a Flute. . .
John D. Haefele and I have been batting chapters of his upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales back and forth like we’re in some champeen tennis match or something. I’m doing the editing, and after I went under the knife earlier … Continue reading
Hammett: And Wandrei
John D. Haefele’s blurbage on Creeps by Night nudged me to get my copy of the Belmont paperback The Red Brain off the Donald Wandrei/E. Hoffmann Price/H. Warner Munn shelf where it lives, to look into once more. The Don/Ed/Harold … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit
Tagged "The Red Brain", Book Collecting, Carl Jacobi, Creeps by Night, Donald Wandrei, Dorothy McIlwraith, Farnsworth Wright, Fritz Leiber, John D. Haefele, Weird Tales
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: John D. Haefele on the Prowl
With the raw bulk of his book on Lovecraft turned in and awaiting editing, our pal John D. Haefele already is poking around on his next book, August Derleth of Arkham House, meanwhile feeding tidbits of his research out to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Cinderella stamps, Colin Wilson, Crypt of Cthulhu, John D. Haefele, Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft
Two-Gun Bob: Appreciating an American Tough Guy
John D. Haefele told me I was way off the other day when I said that one of his chapters in the upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales ran 50,000 words, at least in rough draft. He figured it probably was … Continue reading
