Tag Archives: Louis Tracy

Rediscovered: REH and HPL Dip Tentative Toes into Newsprint

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Don

“I’ve been aware of your blog for years,” Bill Mullins told me in a recent note, “but have recently started reading it more closely via being acquainted with Terry Zobeck.” Bill’s one of those guys jumping into the quest for … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Bill Mullins, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John D. Haefele, Louis Tracy, Lovecraft, Terry Zobeck |

Rediscovered: Yet More Fantômas

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Don

In a couple of hours I’m out the door for PulpFest (boom-boom-boom, boom-boom). Noticed that for the first evening’s programming they have a talk titled The French Connection — “How French Literature May Have Influenced American Pulp Heroes.” Dumas. Fantômas. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Alexander Dumas, Batman, Fantomas, John D. Squires, Library of Congress, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, PulpFest, The Shadow |

Hammett: More Newsprint

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Don

When I checked my copy of Richard Layman’s Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography the other day for information on newspaper reprints, I noticed that he cites a serial run for The Thin Man in the San Francisco Examiner during March and April 1934. … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged "Dead Yellow Women", "The Thin Man", Australian Women's Weekly, Black Mask, Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, John D. Squires, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, newspaper action, Ottawa Citizen, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck |

Rediscovered: Fantômas, the Serials

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Don

My pal John D. Squires, current honcho of the cult for M. P. Shiel, saw the blurb for Fantômas the other day and popped me the ad above, which tries to hook movie theatres in 1916 into running a film serial … Continue reading →