Tag Archives: PEAPS

Rediscovered: A Look Behind the Ed Price Biblio

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Don

Doing some email with noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook, the topic of Ed Price’s collection of pulp era memoirs came up — in particular the bibliography of Price’s own pulp fictioneering that appears in the book. Since I … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, E. Hoffmann Price, John D. Haefele, Kevin Cook, PEAPS, Peter Ruber, Virgil Utter |

Rediscovered: 100 Years Ago

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Don

Recently noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook mentioned one of the features he does for his zine in the amateur press association devoted to pulps: I probably told you about it before, but every PEAPS mailing I do a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, REH | Tagged Adventure, Arthur O. Friel, Genghis Khan, Harold Lamb, Henry S. Whitehead, Kevin Cook, Khlit the Cossack, PEAPS, Rafael Sabatini |

Death Lit: Reliquaries of the Weird

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Don

The other day Brian Leno mentioned that he’d heard good things about the novel Relic by Preston & Child — but even more specifically, he got the major tip-off from me. Brian notes, “You told me about this book over … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Brian Leno, Douglas Preston, John Grisham, Lincoln Child, Manchette, PEAPS, Pendergast Series, Tom Krabacher |

Rediscovered: A Bit More on Unique Legacy

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Don

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 →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged C.L. Moore, Jason Ray Carney, Jeff Shanks, Justin Everett, Kevin Cook, Morgan Holmes, Noir Con, PEAPS, REHupa, Scott Connors, The Cimmerian, The Midget Bandit, The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales, Tom Krabacher, Warren Harris, Weird Tales |

Two-Gun Bob: “Academic Wankery” and the Rise of the Uninformed

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Don

Image above: Howardian academics confronted with a Deconstructionist Debacle — image itself, a Footnote to the Great Flivver War of 2015 (academics love their footnotes, and this pic precisely captures my view of academics and their apparatus). While of course I intend … Continue reading →

Posted in News, REH | Tagged Al Harron, Black Gate, Brian Leno, Castalia House, flivvers, Jeff Shanks, King Kong, Leo Grin, Mark Finn, Morgan Holmes, PEAPS, REHupa, Scott Connors, The Cimmerian, Theo Beale, Vox Day, Weird Tales, Will Murray |

Hammett: Midget Bandit Week!

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Don

If you’re any kind of serious fan of the writings of Dashiell Hammett, you know that Hammett modeled the gunsel Wilmer Cook in The Maltese Falcon, published in first edition hardcovers by Knopf in 1930, on a crook known as The Midget Bandit. … Continue reading →