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Tag Archives: PulpFest
Rediscovered: Talking Cthulhu Mythos and Weird Tales at PulpFest
Image at top: a detail from the PulpFest Facebook page of the panel for discussing the Cthulhu Mythos; left to right Nathan Madison, John D. Haefele, Don Herron, Rick Lai, and moderator Tom Krabacher. Image at bottom: detail, Haefele and … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Cthulhu Mythos, Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, Mike Chomko, Nathan Madison, PulpFest, Rick Lai, The Great War, Tom Krabacher, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: The Indecisive Farnsworth Wright, Hot Topic for PulpFest
Right now I’m packing my kit for the trip to PulpFest this coming weekend. Going in light. Only one book, the first edition hardcover of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos — that one needs a John Hancock … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Donald Wandrei, Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Mike Chomko, Parkinson's disease, PulpFest, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: “Lost” Lovecraft in the Ransom Center
And just in time to serve as additional background for the Weird Tales panel planned for PulpFest — the panel to cover the editorial policies of longtime WT editor Farnsworth Wright, but of course concentrating on how those often bizarre … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Farnsworth Wright, Humanities Research Center, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Dustjackets for Derleth
Even though we are nearing the end of over four months in release, it is still fun for me to keep track of how A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos by my pal John D. Haefele is doing on the … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, Lit, News
Tagged August Derleth, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, PulpFest
Two-Gun Bob: From the Cultural Archives of PulpFest. . . .
Image above from PulpFest 2012, left to right: Rusty Burke, Don Herron, Brian Leno, Indy Cavalier. In the last two or three days Brian Leno popped in a couple of links to that panel we were on during PulpFest 2012, … Continue reading
Posted in News, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Conan, Farnsworth Wright, Frazetta, Indy Cavalier, Lovecraft, PulpFest, Rusty Burke, Sword-and-Sorcery, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: The eMask, Live Today!
The brave new world of ebooks! — what does it offer you today? If you’re a fan of pulp era crime fiction, especially the gritty and hard-boiled sort that shot and slugged its way through the pages of Black Mask — home base for Dashiell … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, REH
Tagged Black Mask, Eugene Cunningham, Evan Lewis, PulpFest, Raymond Chandler, Robert E. Howard Library, The Shadow, Theodore A. Tinsley, Triggernometry, Walter Gibson
Rediscovered: A Rolling Freight Train of Jim Tully Events
Whoa. Falling behind again, as I get ready for another trip, that will wind its way to Denver and ultimately bring me back around to LA in time to hear the Jim Tully talk in Musso & Frank on the 15th. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit, News
Tagged Brian Leno, Jim Tully, Mark Dawidziak, Musso & Frank, Paul J. Bauer, PulpFest, St Marys Ohio, UCLA
Two-Gun Bob: First, You Crack Argosy
When the article “Conan the Argonaut” appeared in The Cimmerian in 2008, one of the inset quotes, selected to illustrate the mindset that essay argues against, came from Lin Carter in his 1973 book on fantasy literature, Imaginary Worlds, where he … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", "Conan vs. Conantics", A. Merritt, Brian Leno, Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Harold Lamb, Harry Morris, Imaginary Worlds, John Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Nyctalops, Otis Adelbert Kline, PulpFest, Pulps, Rafael Sabatini, Ray Cummings, Talbot Mundy, Tarzan, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Hammett: “Mike or Alec or Rufus”
We just had a post from occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno — how about one from the much more frequently appearing Terry Zobeck? As you might expect, Terry spent some of his spare time during PulpFest prowling the stacks of … Continue reading





