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Tag Archives: Morgan Holmes
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
Two-Gun Bob: Famous No.1, then Leno No.1, then. . .
After I blurbed that my new eBook Famous Someday got to no.1 on the Amazon list for Kindle — sub-category horror, sub-sub-category litcrit on horror — I realized that it probably hadn’t been the actual no.1. It was no.1 in the … Continue reading
Posted in News, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Famous Someday, Kindle, Morgan Holmes, Strother Martin, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack
Yesterday the eBook Famous Someday popped on Kindle — another Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack from The Cimmerian Press, but this time instead of litcrit the concentration is on biography. Interviews with people who knew REH. Investigations into books from the library of … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Famous Someday, Kindle, Morgan Holmes, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: Where Are the Words of the Week of Yesteryear?
When I got up this morning to view the solar eclipse through a spaghetti strainer (not the opening words I ever imagined for a blog post), I was happy to see that my eBook LitCrit MegaPack on Texas writer Robert … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Castalia House, Deuce Richardson, flivvers, Leo Grin, Morgan Holmes, REHupa, The Cimmerian, Two-Gun Raconteur
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
Rediscovered: A Bit More on Unique Legacy
And how about another new Guest Blogger dipping his toes into the Mean Streets waters? Today we feature Kevin Cook with a brief review of the academic litcrit collection The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales, which originally ran in his zine … Continue reading
Rediscovered: A Unique Legacy, Still Waiting on Godot. . .
How about a new Guest Blogger for These Mean Streets? You’ve encountered Tom Krabacher’s name here before, notably in my report on PulpFest 2015. Just yesterday I was dismissing the academic compilation The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales (yet another poorly-edited … Continue reading
Smackdown: The Morgman Beats Noah Ward
— but loses Best Fan Writer Hugo to Mike Glyer, the guy who does the newszine File 770. Maybe next year. But Morgan knocked the hell out of Noah Ward. At least I think that’s what happened. If you want … Continue reading
Posted in News, REH
Tagged "Noah Ward", Castalia House, Hugo Awards, Mike Glyer, Morgan Holmes, The Robert E. Howard Foundation
BIREME: The Robert E. Howard VEHICLE OF THE WEEK
If I don’t have the dates all messed up, I think tonight we learn whether or not Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes goes from Hugo Nominee to Hugo WINNER! And good luck, Morgan. As a scholar of decades standing in the … Continue reading
Smackdown: The Morgman vs. the Fires of Hell! and Other Perils
For the delectation of Sword-and-Sorcery fans everywhere, how about a gander at another proof cover for the eBook Enter the Barbarian by Morgan Holmes? Maybe you’d call it a draft cover, though, since it never went out with a proof … Continue reading





