Tag Archives: Lovecraft

Rediscovered: The Indecisive Farnsworth Wright, Hot Topic for PulpFest

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Don

Right now I’m packing my kit for the trip to PulpFest this coming weekend. Going in light. Only one book, the first edition hardcover of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos — that one needs a John Hancock … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Donald Wandrei, Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Mike Chomko, Parkinson's disease, PulpFest, Weird Tales |

Frisco Beat: Top of the Heap!

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Don

The Literary World of San Francisco — as I’ve been reporting — is still no.2 on the Amazon bestseller list for travel books about San Francisco as I check the stats today, but yesterday for about 4 hours muscled it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Amazon, Arthur Machen, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, David Drake, John D. Squires, Karl Edward Wagner, Literary World of San Francisco, Lovecraft, M. P. Shiel |

Rediscovered: Another Perfect Reader for John D. Haefele’s Eldritch Tome

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Don

A brooding rumination on John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos was brought to my attention recently — written by a guy named Jeffery Scott Sims, who is so in tune with the book that he may as well sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Cthulhu Mythos, Haefele's Heretics, Jeffery Scott Sims, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft |

Rediscovered: “Lost” Lovecraft in the Ransom Center

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Don

And just in time to serve as additional background for the Weird Tales panel planned for PulpFest — the panel to cover the editorial policies of longtime WT editor Farnsworth Wright, but of course concentrating on how those often bizarre … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Farnsworth Wright, Humanities Research Center, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: Dustjackets for Derleth

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Don

Even though we are nearing the end of over four months in release, it is still fun for me to keep track of how A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos by my pal John D. Haefele is doing on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged August Derleth, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, PulpFest |

Two-Gun Bob: From the Cultural Archives of PulpFest. . . .

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Don

Image above from PulpFest 2012, left to right: Rusty Burke, Don Herron, Brian Leno, Indy Cavalier. In the last two or three days Brian Leno popped in a couple of links to that panel we were on during PulpFest 2012, … Continue reading →

Posted in News, REH | Tagged Brian Leno, Conan, Farnsworth Wright, Frazetta, Indy Cavalier, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Rusty Burke, Sword-and-Sorcery, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: That Haefele/Harksen First Edition Hardcover

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Don

You may recall that I had my initial encounter with John D. Haefele — author of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos — back in 2002, when he added his research into Arkham House ephemerae to the stack of notes … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Cthulhu Mythos, Firsts, Haefele's Heretics, Henrik Harksen, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft |

Rediscovered: Klarkash-Ton for Hallowe’en

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Don

Toward my seasonal Hallowe’en reading this year, I decided I’d dive back into the eldritch oeuvre of Clark Ashton Smith — it has been far too long since I did any kind of major rereading, though of course I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Ron Hilger, Scott Connors, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: A Willeford Blurb — For Haefele?!?

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Don

Image above — Haefele’s Heretics rolling into Lovecraft Town on a convoy of Shermans. Locked and loaded. Yep, every time I pick up the new trade paperback of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos all I can … Continue reading →

Posted in DMac, Lit, News, Willeford | Tagged August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Haefele's Heretics, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Patton, Randy Everts, Scott Connors, Sherman tank, Tom Krabacher |

Rediscovered: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!!! — and Just in Time for Halloween

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Don

The fully revised, expanded trade paperback edition of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos went live on Amazon yesterday — with the look inside the first thirty or so pages to come in the next few weeks, and the cover … Continue reading →