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The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Rediscovered: Andrew Lang
Continuing today’s Autograph Hound Super-Sunday theme of Lost Race — sometimes known as Lost World, guess the fine line drawn depends on how exotic the race involved in the action may be, but the baseline is the Lost part — we bring … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Andrew Lang, Autographs, Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, Brian Leno, Clark Ashton Smith, H. Rider Haggard, Lin Carter, Lost Race, Lovecraft
Rediscovered: Lovecraft — the Reason There’s Arkham Ephemera
If we’re celebrating John D. Haefele’s landmark article on Modern Arkham House Ephemera in the September/October issue of Firsts (with the checklist of items to follow soon in the November/December issue) — and we are — then how about bringing … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, Autographs, Book Collecting, Dr. Syntax, Firsts, Henry Kuttner, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, William Combe
Rediscovered: Karl to Eric
John D. Haefele slips a toe into the Autograph Hound Saturday action, writing: “You and your cohorts seem focused on the first third of the twentieth century. “Here is one of interest from the middle. I didn’t even know I had … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Autographs, Eric Carlson, John D. Haefele, Karl Edward Wagner, L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft
Rediscovered: Derleth in re: Weird Tales
In about a month John D. Haefele’s third article for the newly revived Crypt of Cthulhu will hit the eldritch and squamous streets — covering August Derleth’s various published commentaries on the magazine Weird Tales. The mag where a teenaged Derleth … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged August Derleth, Book Collecting, Crypt of Cthulhu, Deuce Richardson, Henrik Harksen, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Weird Tales
Remembered: 100 Years Ago Today
Yeah, you see the autographed pic of Dempsey, and your mind spins — you’re thinking it’s Autograph Hound Saturday! But it’s Thursday July 4th — and American Independence happened more than a hundred years ago, right? (That’s what I heard, anyway.) … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing, News, REH
Tagged Autographs, Jack Dempsey, Jack London, Jess Willard, Jim Tully, Lovecraft
Rediscovered: Correctomundo Once More
Ah. And I am proven correct yet again. Most recently, you may recall the post I did largely on the topic of Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright where I noted —reviving the term from a debate in the letters column … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Farnsworth Wright, Fritz Leiber, John Locke, Lovecraft, Otis Adelbert Kline, Otto Binder, Seabury Quinn, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: From One Derleth Devotee to Another
And after word got around that Wilum Pugmire took his last breath on the 26th, John D. Haefele sent along the following in memoriam statement: I was deeply saddened by news of Wilum Pugmire’s death. I never met him in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos, August Derleth, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire
Rediscovered: Good Farny v. Bad Farny
Coming up for air after a long plunge into the edit on John Haefele’s magnum opus on Lovecraft, I thought of an observation from John Locke that I spotted awhile back. I guess the coverage of “The Shunned House” in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, John Locke, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Parkinson's disease, The Thing's Incredible!, Weird Tales
Two-Gun Bob: The de Camp Bio
Hey, some books may deserve to be forgotten. Inspired by reading my little biographical eBook on Robert E. Howard, Famous Someday — at this moment no.2 on the Kindle Horror Litcrit Bestseller list, for what that’s worth — (And my … Continue reading





