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Tag Archives: Lovecraft
Two-Gun Bob: A Quick Meditation on Arriving Too Late on the Scene
Another factor in hitting the Second Sunday fan gathering was that Tom Krabacher — an academic of many years standing, but also a longtime fan (he’s planning on doing a Dum Dum next year for Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiasts) — … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Doom Patrol, Geary Street, Glenn Lord, John D. Haefele, Kim Thanh, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, S.T. Joshi, Second Sunday, Tom Krabacher
Rediscovered: That Cosmic Piping of a Flute. . .
John D. Haefele and I have been batting chapters of his upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales back and forth like we’re in some champeen tennis match or something. I’m doing the editing, and after I went under the knife earlier … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: Famous Someday No. 1
Damn. I slept through it! When I woke up today I thought to check to see if the eBook Famous Someday, which I blurbed yesterday, had made it to any kind of sales ranking on Amazon. Turns out it’s doing … Continue reading
Hammett: And Derleth
Yesterday we had a guest post from Brian Leno, and today John D. Haefele drops back into the action. Want to find out what August Derleth of Arkham House had to do with Creeps by Night, the anthology of weird fiction edited … Continue reading
Rediscovered: John D. Haefele on the Prowl
With the raw bulk of his book on Lovecraft turned in and awaiting editing, our pal John D. Haefele already is poking around on his next book, August Derleth of Arkham House, meanwhile feeding tidbits of his research out to … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Cinderella stamps, Colin Wilson, Crypt of Cthulhu, John D. Haefele, Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft
Rediscovered: Something Else Fishy for Hallowe’en
If you surf over to Element 118 Books you’ll find a new horror story by Brian Leno served up for Hallowe’en. Brian must have gotten deep into the spooks and goblins mood this year, since he just did a little rundown … Continue reading
Rediscovered: “A Hand from the Deep”
To get our surfing safari in the Hallowe’en mood, Guest Blogger Brian Leno popped in a post on an early yarn in Weird Tales from an obscure scribe — but it may have had some trace influence on another obscure scribe of … Continue reading
Rediscovered: More Mask and Daly — and The Munnster Rides Again
Speaking of Carroll John Daly and Black Mask, as I just was, yes, I got the memo on July 19 that Steeger Properties LLC had bought the rights to The Mask — and also acquired rights to the Daly backlog. Since I guess … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Altus Press, Black Mask, Carroll John Daly, H. Warner Munn, Lovecraft, Steeger Properties, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Carroll John Who? H. Warner What?
On the tour in recent years (three or four years ago, five, not twenty years ago, not thirty-five) a woman mentioned that her uncle — or maybe he was her great-uncle — like Hammett also had written for the pulp Black Mask. … Continue reading
