Tag Archives: John D. Haefele

Hammett: And Wandrei

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Don

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 →

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Hammett: And Derleth

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Don

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 →

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Rediscovered: John D. Haefele on the Prowl

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Don

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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Two-Gun Bob: Appreciating an American Tough Guy

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Don

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 →

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Rediscovered: The Lost Arkham Imprint

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Don

I forgot to mention that John D. Haefele wrapped up his three-part series on August Derleth and the Little Review. The third part is kind of the good one — the closer — since it deals with Derleth’s own little … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Haefele IDs HPL in Medieval France!

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Don

Holy Cow! Our pal John D. Haefele went off for a little vacation, and when in France, apparently stepped across a dimensional boundary that put him smackdab into Clark Ashton Smith’s Averoigne — or some weird clime that lies out … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: More on Derleth and the Little Review Phenom

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Don

A couple of weeks back John D. Haefele began a series of posts on August Derleth and the Little Review and part two just went live over on the Allied Authors of Wisconsin site, if you want to check it … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Derleth and Little Reviews

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Don

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 →

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Smackdown: The Morgman vs. the Fires of Hell! and Other Perils

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Don

For the delectation of Sword-and-Sorcery fans everywhere, how about a gander at another proof cover for the eBook Enter the Barbarian by Morgan Holmes? Maybe you’d call it a draft cover, though, since it never went out with a proof … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Further Pontine Ephemera

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Don

Remember that cache of Arkham House ephemera I landed the other week, anchored by a TLS by August Derleth on a Solar Pons greeting card he had had printed up? I thought just having the little signed note by Derleth … Continue reading →

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