Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. 
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1977-2022
Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973
Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024
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Tag Archives: Olaf Stapledon
Rediscovered: John D. Haefele’s “Why HPL?”
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
