Tag Archives: PulpFest

Rediscovered: When Time Proves You Right

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Don

Needless to say, you get some soul-satisfaction out of being proven right — and I’m more fortunate than most in that I have been messing around the Robert E. Howard fan arena for decades, with the opportunity to be proven … Continue reading →

Posted in REH | Tagged Book Collecting, John D. Haefele, Leo Grin, PulpFest, The Cimmerian, Wandering Star, William Maynard |

Rediscovered: Thumbing the Hammers in the Gun-Dummy Game

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Don

Hey, can you tell that I am deep into Will Murray’s history of the pulp western, Wordslingers? A history of a genre, an encyclopedia of mini-biographies of a thousand and one fictioneers, and a debate between the proponents of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Daisy Bacon, E. Hoffmann Price, Esquire, Farnsworth Wright, H. Warner Munn, Henry S. Whitehead, Laurie Powers, Love Stories, Lovecraft, Paul S. Powers, PulpFest, Pulps, Seabury Quinn, The Shadow, Weird Tales, Wild West Weekly, Will Murray |

Hammett: Out of the Past

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Don

Do you remember my description in the recent PulpFest report about how a dealer showed me a copy of my 1982 tour book in gray wraps which he had priced at $15? I was going to put it back for … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Tour | Tagged Autographs, Bill Arney, Burritt alley, Hammett Cult in San Francisco, John D. Haefele, Morgan Holmes, PulpFest, Red Harvest, Tom Krabacher |

Rediscovered: Biography Month Once More on These Mean Streets

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Don

What ho, it is Biography Month once again on Up and Down These Mean Streets — last time I did one was July 2012. The new bio of Jim Tully was a big excuse that time, and no doubt the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged 620 Eddy, 811 Geary, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Fritz Leiber, Geary Street, Hyde Street, Jim Tully, Leo Grin, M. P. Shiel, Miriam Allen DeFord, Morgan Holmes, Musso & Frank, Nathan Ward, PulpFest, Saigon Sandwich, Saroyan, Stan McNail, Stan Sargent, Tenderloin Museum, Terry Zobeck, William Vollmann |

Rediscovered: The Fugitive Library of Young Scott, and Haefele’s Proto-Panel

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Don

You know those stories you read, about how some guy has gone off to war in Afghanistan or someplace and comes back to find out that his soon-to-be-ex-wife has sold his dog? Or all the stories about soldiers who put … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Arkham House, Autographs, Book Collecting, Donald Wandrei, Dwayne Olson, Fritz Leiber, H. Warner Munn, John D. Haefele, PulpFest, Scott Connors, Vincent Starrett, Walden Derleth, World Fantasy Convention |

Hammett: And Walker Martin

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Don

Even rambling on at some length, I couldn’t cover every detail or drop every name in my PulpFest report — though I consider some of that action taken care of by links to other posts, which namecheck people I skip … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged August Derleth, Fritz Leiber, John D. Haefele, Nick Certo, PulpFest, Smart Set, Tom Krabacher, Walker Martin |

Rediscovered: PulpFest 2015 — On the Whole, I’d Rather Not Be in Philadelphia

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Don

Got to the airport predawn on Thursday August 13, plenty of time to fly to Phoenix, catch the connecting flight to Columbus, Ohio, so I’d hit this year’s PulpFest by 4p.m., before they even cracked open the doors of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, SFSC, Willeford | Tagged August Derleth, Autographs, Avram Davidson, Bill Lampkin, Bill Mann, Bill Thinnes, Black Mask, Bob Byrne, Brian Earl Brown, Chet Williamson, Chuck Miller, Fritz Leiber, George Vanderburgh, German Village, Jim Barron, John D. Haefele, John DeWalt, John Gunnison, literary homes, Lovecraft, Mike Chomko, Morgan Holmes, Noir Con, Paul Herman, Philadelphia, Poe, PulpFest, Rah Hoffman, Ron Hilger, Schmidt's Sausage Haus, Scott Connors, Scott Hartshorn, Solar Pons, Steve Eng, Terry Zobeck, The Pulpster, Tom Krabacher, Underwood-Miller, Walker Martin, Warren Harris, Will Murray, William Lampkin, William Maynard, Wilson Warneld |

Rediscovered: John D. Haefele’s “Why HPL?”

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Don

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 |

Rediscovered: “My Pal HPL”

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Don

Today is birthday 125 for good old H. P. Lovecraft — and that landmark anniversary was the excuse to jet off to PulpFest and participate in the panels on the Cthulhu Mythos (HPL’s major claim to fame) and Weird Tales … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Ben P. Indick, Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Frank Belknap Long, George F. Haas, H. Warner Munn, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: More First World War

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Don

When I began fielding Michael Stoler’s query about the use of the expression “the First World War” in Hammett’s “This King Business” from 1928 last month, I had the impression that I had encountered the use of “First” — not just … Continue reading →