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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: Kevin Cook
Rediscovered: 100 Years Ago
Recently noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook mentioned one of the features he does for his zine in the amateur press association devoted to pulps: I probably told you about it before, but every PEAPS mailing I do a … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, REH
Tagged Adventure, Arthur O. Friel, Genghis Khan, Harold Lamb, Henry S. Whitehead, Kevin Cook, Khlit the Cossack, PEAPS, Rafael Sabatini
Rediscovered: Does Continuity Matter?
For those who enjoy chewing the fat about books and writers, in email the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook and I recently got off on another little thread that might interest some of you: Kevin: Of course the … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Excerpts of Nostalgic Book Talk
Kicking the can around in email with noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook, we hit a thread of wishing we’d been alive back when, getting new stories by favorite writers hot off the press. It began as Kevin was … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, Adventure, Alfred Clark, Anthony Wall, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Arthur Machen, Austin Hall, Black Mask, Bram Stoker, Charles B. Stilson, Cthulhu Mythos, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elak, Eugene Shade Bisbee, Francis Stevens, Frank Aubrey, George Allan England, H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Harold Lamb, Homer Eon Flint, John Taine, Kevin Cook, Pearson's, Perley Poore Sheehan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stevenson, The Strand Magazine, Thongor, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Charles Saunders
You can tell that at the time Cheryl Cline wrote her article on Sword-and-Sorcery for Portable Storage 4 she was unaware of the death of Imaro creator Charles Saunders. Like most, I only got the news late in the year. … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing, Lit, News
Tagged Charles Saunders, Imaro, Karl Edward Wagner, Kevin Cook, Leo Grin, Morgan Holmes, Tompk
Two-Gun Bob: Portable Storage Four
But for being buried under the sprint to the finish on Haefele’s Lovecraft: The Great Tales the last few weeks or months, I would have mentioned the fact that Bill Breiding pubbed another ish of his new zine on August … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Further “Fungus” Fisher
Yet another Autograph Hound Super-Sunday! Jeez, what have I got lying around in all the stacks of stuff? Remember when Brian Leno provided a John Hancock for Philip M. Fisher Jr, probably best known today for his short story “Fungus … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged "Fungus Isle", Argosy All-Story Weekly, Brian Leno, Frank A. Munsey, Kevin Cook, Philip M. Fisher Jr, The Great War
Rediscovered: Raymond’s Factory Overture, Signed
Noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook is back to show off another signed item from his shelves, to spotlight another of his favorite writers. “Perhaps someone will be intrigued enough,” Kevin says, “to give Derek Raymond a try. It … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Hannes Bok — “Dear Virginia”
And how about a gander at the letter legendary artist Hannes Bok sent before the one he sent yesterday? Also courtesy of noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook prowling around in his treasure trove, of course.
Rediscovered: A Letter from Hannes Bok
And noted book and pulp (and autograph, and letter, and miscellania) collector Kevin Cook thought some of you might like to peruse a letter the legendary fantasy artist Hannes Bok tossed into the mail seventy-eight years ago today. Cool, right?
