Tag Archives: Lovecraft

Rediscovered: Haefele IDs HPL in Medieval France!

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Don

Holy Cow! Our pal John D. Haefele went off for a little vacation, and when in France, apparently stepped across a dimensional boundary that put him smackdab into Clark Ashton Smith’s Averoigne — or some weird clime that lies out … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Derleth and Little Reviews

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Don

If you know much about August Derleth, you know he made his rep equally between writing for pulps such as Weird Tales and doing the more artsy wordplay for Little Reviews — eventually he even combined the two fields of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: From Two-Gun Bob to Ali

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Don

The death of Mohammed Ali yesterday spurred our resident Mean Streets boxing expert, Brian Leno — now in the thick of writing a book on Robert E. Howard and the world of pugilism he knew — to show how closely … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Some John Hancockery from Brackett and Hamilton

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Don

To give him a different sort of wrap for his multi-part series on the Centennial of Leigh Brackett, I sent Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes some images from a copy of the program book for the 1964 World Science Fiction Convention — … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Lovecraft and Race

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Don

Race Williams, that is. Terry Zobeck just updated me on his Pilgrim’s Progress through the Lovecraft reading list I gave him, and it turns out that my blurb for Them That Lives By Their Guns by Carroll John Daly sold … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Life and Death for the Boxers

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Don

Boxing is in the air I’m breathing this weekend. Need to drop in for a birthday party for my pal Floyd Salas, who is hitting 85 years on the Mean Streets — and some of the streets he went up and down were unquestionably … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Podcast from Arkham Country

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Don

No doubt I shoulda/woulda done a post yesterday for the anniversary of Hammett’s death in 1961, but I got a request close to the last minute to join a podcast about August Derleth and the Cthulhu Mythos for The Lovecraft eZine. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Lovecraft Initiate Reading List

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Don

When Terry Zobeck told me he’d picked up a Complete Stories of H.P. Lovecraft, I quickly mocked up a reading list to sell him on The Old Gent — a list of thirteen stories and one dream fragment. I could … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Predictive Fate of Young Belknapius

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Don

Image above: Frank Belknap Long, left, and H.P. Lovecraft clowning around for the camera. Terry Zobeck just told me that he picked up a Complete Stories of Lovecraft on January 3, after seeing all the references to HPL here on … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Eldritch Altar of a Haefele Heretic!

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Don

Hey-hey. Friday the 13th! What eldritch and unspeakable image or subject would be an apt fit for today, I wonder, I wonder. . . ? How about the pic above by Michael Moses, who added some Lovecraft idols to a … Continue reading →

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