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The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
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Tag Archives: Peter Ruber
Rediscovered: A Look Behind the Ed Price Biblio
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: Haefele on The Candlelight Press
For you bibliophiles out there, John D. Haefele just put up a comprehensive yet compact history and survey of The Candlelight Press — one of the presses August Derleth of Arkham House had a couple of fingers in for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Candlelight Press, John D. Haefele, Peter Ruber, Vincent Starrett
Rediscovered: Arkham House Ephemera, the Modern Years
Ah, just in time for Halloween, but you can order it now — the September/October 2019 issue of Firsts: The Book Collectors Magazine, notable for including the first comprehensive checklist of Arkham House ephemera, Modern Era, ever published. And this list … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Donald Wandrei, Firsts, James Turner, John D. Haefele, Peter Ruber
Rediscovered: John D. Haefele on the History of Arkham House
Our resident expert in everything Arkham returns to review a new (if repurposed) book on the fabled press. John D. Haefele certainly burst fully-formed on the scene with his A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos, but he’s done a ton … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, George Vanderburgh, Jim Turner, John D. Haefele, Peter Ruber, Robert Weinberg, S.T. Joshi





