Tag Archives: Lovecraft

Rediscovered: John D. Haefele on Fungi from Yuggoth

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Don

Remember how John D. Haefele was nudging me to do a reread on H. P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth sonnet cycle a few months ago, which led to my micro-essay “Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft”? I give Haefele a blurb … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged "Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft", Donald Wandrei, Fungi from Yuggoth, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales |

Tour: What Fell Heir to the Pulps?

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Don

Waking up today, trying to pour enough joe down around my lungs to get fumbling fingers to lace the gumshoes so I can go out and do another tour, I find an email from Patrick McEntee. He’s the guy who … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, Tour | Tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Comic Book Jungle, Donald Wandrei, Lovecraft, Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams, Patrick McEntee, Pulps, Steve Ditko, The Shadow |

Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons” vs. Lovecraft

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Don

Let’s kick off LitCrit Month by flipping a grenade into the complacent multitudes of Lovecraft fans, milling about the base of his fane, mumbling inchoate incantations to Cthulhu and company. I’m guessing that most Lovecraft fans never read Brian Leno’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit, REH | Tagged "Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft", "The Frost-Giant's Daughter", Black Gate, Brian Leno, Conan, Jeff Shanks, Leo Grin, Lovecraft, The Cimmerian, TriplePunchPack, W.C. Tuttle, Will Murray |

Rediscovered: Thumbing the Hammers in the Gun-Dummy Game

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Don

Hey, can you tell that I am deep into Will Murray’s history of the pulp western, Wordslingers? A history of a genre, an encyclopedia of mini-biographies of a thousand and one fictioneers, and a debate between the proponents of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Daisy Bacon, E. Hoffmann Price, Esquire, Farnsworth Wright, H. Warner Munn, Henry S. Whitehead, Laurie Powers, Love Stories, Lovecraft, Paul S. Powers, PulpFest, Pulps, Seabury Quinn, The Shadow, Weird Tales, Wild West Weekly, Will Murray |

Rediscovered: “Cthulhu and his myth-cycle”

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Don

Okay, John D. Haefele has given thumb’s up to me presenting for your edification one of the new riffs he added to the eBook edition of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos — hey, a little publicity never hurt anything, right? … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged August Derleth, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Robert H. Barlow, S.T. Joshi |

John D. Haefele’s “A Testament to His Influence”

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Don

To celebrate the third edition of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos going live on Kindle — illustrated in full color from his pristine holdings of Arkham House books and ephemera — we present a review intimately connected … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, August Derleth Society Newsletter, Colin Wilson, Cthulhu Mythos, Donald Wandrei, John D. Haefele, Kindle, Letters To Arkham, Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, S.T. Joshi, State Historical Society of Wisconsin |

Rediscovered: PulpFest 2015 — On the Whole, I’d Rather Not Be in Philadelphia

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Don

Got to the airport predawn on Thursday August 13, plenty of time to fly to Phoenix, catch the connecting flight to Columbus, Ohio, so I’d hit this year’s PulpFest by 4p.m., before they even cracked open the doors of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, SFSC, Willeford | Tagged August Derleth, Autographs, Avram Davidson, Bill Lampkin, Bill Mann, Bill Thinnes, Black Mask, Bob Byrne, Brian Earl Brown, Chet Williamson, Chuck Miller, Fritz Leiber, George Vanderburgh, German Village, Jim Barron, John D. Haefele, John DeWalt, John Gunnison, literary homes, Lovecraft, Mike Chomko, Morgan Holmes, Noir Con, Paul Herman, Philadelphia, Poe, PulpFest, Rah Hoffman, Ron Hilger, Schmidt's Sausage Haus, Scott Connors, Scott Hartshorn, Solar Pons, Steve Eng, Terry Zobeck, The Pulpster, Tom Krabacher, Underwood-Miller, Walker Martin, Warren Harris, Will Murray, William Lampkin, William Maynard, Wilson Warneld |

Rediscovered: John D. Haefele’s “Why HPL?”

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Don

On the occasion of HPL: Birthday 125, how about another origin story from yet another guy who traveled to PulpFest to honor H. P. Lovecraft? In this instance we showcase how John D. Haefele first encountered the Old Gent from Providence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Cthulhu Mythos, Frank Belknap Long, John D. Haefele, lit, Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, PulpFest, Tolkien |

Rediscovered: “My Pal HPL”

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Don

Today is birthday 125 for good old H. P. Lovecraft — and that landmark anniversary was the excuse to jet off to PulpFest and participate in the panels on the Cthulhu Mythos (HPL’s major claim to fame) and Weird Tales … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Ben P. Indick, Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Frank Belknap Long, George F. Haas, H. Warner Munn, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Weird Tales |

Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft”

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Don

I got a note from Bob Byrne — who you may know as “the Solar Pons guy” who wrote that thorough survey of Bogie vs. Raft I linked to awhile back — asking if I’d contribute to a symposium he’s … Continue reading →