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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Rediscovered: The Derleth Mythos
Man, has LitCrit Month been disrupted, or what? Lots of potential posts as yet undone — but I’ve got a cool excuse for inaction. On the side I’ve been reading a proof of John Haefele’s upcoming book-length study of how … Continue reading
Mort: Gore Vidal
I wasn’t going to mention the passing of Gore Vidal the other day, since it seemed a little offtrail for this blog — hey, the guy was no H. P. Lovecraft. Yeah, yeah, I’ve been aware of him most of … Continue reading
Hammett: And Lovecraft
Whoa. Friday the 13th. Time to get a little eldritch and unspeakable for Biography Month. . . . And unspeaking of H. P. Lovecraft, I admit I’m just as interested in the Could Have Beens of a writer’s life as the Plain … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Farnsworth Wright, Including Murder, Lovecraft, Pulps, Raymond Chandler, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Hammett: A Couple of Thoughts on Including Murder
As I’ve been brooding over the Robert S. Powell article about the first Continental Op collection Including Murder, two kind of random thoughts hit me: First, Powell describes the emendations in pencil on the tearsheets as being done in a … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco
Tagged Black Mask, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Lovecraft, Pulps, pure texts, Red Harvest, Robert S. Powell, The Dain Curse
Rediscovered: E. Hoffmann Price
Will Hart has been piling up a Visual-Bibliography for the prolific pulp fictioneer Edgar Hoffmann Price on Flickr — photos, colorful magazine covers, some stories and letters. If you’ve gumshoed along on the Hammett tour, chances are good that you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH, Tour
Tagged Argosy, E. Hoffmann Price, Lovecraft, Pulps, Weird Tales, Will Hart
Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today
How about another chunk out of the long essay “Conan the Argonaut” by me and Morgan Holmes to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of H. P. Lovecraft? Straight from the word doc, pretty self-explanatory: After the First … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Farnsworth Wright, L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, S.T. Joshi, Sam Moskowitz, Weird Tales, Zane Grey
Rediscovered: An Aside on John Carter of Mars
In 2008, under my occasional nom de guerre George Knight, I collaborated with Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes on “Conan the Argonaut” for the August issue of The Cimmerian, V5n4 — covering the idea that if he had lived Robert E. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Knight, John Carter, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, Tarzan, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: PKD, 30 Years After
For the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, today, my occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno has put up a post about how he’s finally getting around to reading that titan of science fiction — and, yes, better … Continue reading
