Tag Archives: Pulps

Two-Gun Bob: First, You Crack Argosy

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Don

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”

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Don

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 →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged "Mike or Alec or Rufus", "One Hour", "The Creeping Siamese", "Tom Dick or Harry", Black Mask, Brian Leno, EQMM, Eric Johnson, Frederic Dannay, Ohio State University, PulpFest, Pulps, pure texts, Rebecca Jewett, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: vs. Thurber

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Don

Inspired by the trip to PulpFest and the side visit to the James Thurber house in Columbus, our occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno pops in some info he uncovered which ought to amuse any and all surfers and lurkers in Up … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged Brian Leno, Burton Bernstein, James Thurber, Lillian Hellman, PulpFest, Pulps |

Rediscovered: The Thurber House and Grave

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Don

When he was checking out the web to see what attractions we might want to see on the side during PulpFest, Brian Leno spotted a James Thurber house open as a museum in Columbus, Ohio. As I’ve said before, I’ll track down any literary residence for … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged A.A. Wyn, Bobblehead dolls, Brian Leno, Frederick C. Davis, Green Lawn Cemetery, Helen Wismer, James Thurber, literary graves, literary homes, Operator 5, PulpFest, Pulps, Robert Kenneth Jones, shudder pulps, Walker Martin |

Rediscovered: Stabbed in the Forehead! (and Other Pulp Thrills)

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Don

How about a postmortem on PulpFest before something else ripping Up and Down These Mean Streets distracts me? It’s always something — latest is juggling a date and time to do a walk for a Private Eye convention in October. (Tours … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Anthony Tollin, Arkham House, Black Mask, Bob Clampett, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Chester Himes, Conan, Count of Monte Cristo, Dillinger, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Erle Stanley Gardner, Esquire, Fantomas, Fat Charley Makley, German Village, Green Lawn Cemetery, James Thurber, Jim Tully, John Carter, Mike Chomko, Nick Certo, O. Henry, Ohio Caverns, Ohio State Pen, PulpFest, Pulps, Rick Lai, Rusty Burke, Serpent Mound, Smart Set, St Marys Ohio, Stark House Press, Terry Zobeck, The Shadow, The Spider, Walker Martin, Walter B. Gibson |

Hammett: “Who Killed Bob Teal?”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Don

Step-by-step, story-by-story, Terry Zobeck is chipping away at the editing done to Hammett’s short stories by Frederic Dannay over fifty years ago, and this round returns with another tale of the Continental Op. Most Op tales take place in San … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco | Tagged "Slippery Fingers", "Who Killed Bob Teal?", "Women Politics and Murder", "Zigzags of Treachery", Black Mask, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Phil Cody, Pulps, pure texts, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, True Detective Mysteries, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: “Vamping Samson”

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Don

For me a writer’s life is traditional biography superimposed over strict bibliography. I want to know what was written, when, why, and then follow the writings into print, especially print that occurred in the writer’s own lifetime, when it meant … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged "Ber-Bulu", "The Barber and His Wife", "Vamping Samson", Experience, George Jean Nathan, H. Bedford-Jones, H. L. Mencken, Pulps, Richard Layman, Smart Set, Sunset, Terry Zobeck, The Editor, The Forum, Vince Emery |

Hammett: And Lovecraft

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Don

Whoa. Friday the 13th. Time to get a little eldritch and unspeakable for Biography Month. . . . And unspeaking of H. P. Lovecraft, I admit I’m just as interested in the Could Have Beens of a writer’s life as the Plain … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Farnsworth Wright, Including Murder, Lovecraft, Pulps, Raymond Chandler, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales |

Hammett: Coining “The Continental Op”

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Don

Was it Cap Shaw? Was it some unheralded editorial assistant? Terry Zobeck plunged into his Black Mask collection to check on who first used the coinage “The Continental Op” to describe Hammett’s short fat Frisco sleuth. That’s with a capital … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged "Death and Company", "Pick-Up", "The Farewell Murder", "The Whosis Kid", Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Pulps, Terry Zobeck, The Dain Curse |

Hammett: A Couple of Thoughts on Including Murder

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Don

As I’ve been brooding over the Robert S. Powell article about the first Continental Op collection Including Murder, two kind of random thoughts hit me: First, Powell describes the emendations in pencil on the tearsheets as being done in a … Continue reading →