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Tag Archives: literary suicides
Two-Gun Bob: “Found Wounded” in Corpus Christi
I was sitting around, minding my own business, thinking about the closest brushes with death I had back in the days of The San Francisco Suicide Club (1977-1982). When suddenly into the Inbox hops Scott Connors, exclaiming: “Found another one!” … Continue reading
Posted in REH, SFSC
Tagged Brian Leno, Corpus Christi Times, June 11 1936, L. Sprague de Camp, literary suicides, Scott Connors
Two-Gun Bob: Breaking News in Brownsville
Brian Leno has unleased a flood of breaking news stories on the suicide of Robert E. Howard, who shot himself in the head and lingered for hours before death. Scott Connors just popped in the notice above, which he found … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: Breaking News in Brownwood, Too
Continuing to poke around in the Texas newsprint of yesteryear, Brian Leno found another notice that Robert E. Howard had shot himself in the head, but remained alive, to go along with the one he found the other day. “Just … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: “Suffering from a pistol wound”
In the course of researching his book on the boxing world of Robert E. Howard, Brian Leno keeps tumbling to interesting tidbits — such as the news item above. Brian notes, “As far as I know, this is a first … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Coleman County Chronicle, June 11 1936, literary suicides, The Nonesuch Brian Leno
Two-Gun Bob: The Flivver Dither
It is now two days since I rebutted the note on the Two-Gun Raconteur blog about a flivver not being, specifically, a Ford. No corrections or apologies or anything — gee, you’d think Damon Sasser got mad at me or … Continue reading
Tombstone: Two-Gun Bob
Photo above courtesy the Crider Family Archives, circa 1980. Left to right, at the Robert E. Howard grave in Brownwood, Texas: James Reasoner and Angela, Allen and Bill Crider. The Crider clan lived in Brownwood in that era. If the approximate … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged Allen Crider, Angela Crider Neary, Bill Crider, James Reasoner, literary graves, literary suicides
Two-Gun Bob: Into the West
Sometime after midnight, as 2011 had slipped away and the New Year had begun, I did a quick check of email and found a barrage of notes telling me that Glenn Lord had passed away on the last day of the vanished … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged Glenn Lord, Howard Days, James Reasoner, literary suicides, Walt Coburn
