Tag Archives: Pulps

Two-Gun Bob: PulpFest 2012

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Don

Among other things PulpFest is going to commemorate this year will be the eightieth anniversary of the coming of Robert E. Howard’s Conan — exploding into the culture in the December 1932 issue of Weird Tales. In many ways, and given that Howard … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Argosy, Brian Leno, Conan, Fritz Leiber, Harry Otto Fischer, John D. Squires, Karl Edward Wagner, Kid Dula, PulpFest, Pulps, Rusty Burke, Steve Eng, Sword-and-Sorcery, Weird Tales |

Hammett: The Lineup for Including Murder

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Don

If you don’t have the issue of Clues with the Robert S. Powell article on Including Murder, you may wonder which stories would have made up what would have been Hammett’s first book, if it had been published — all Continental Op tales … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "Bodies Piled Up", "Crooked Souls", "Night Shots", "One Hour", "The Gatewood Caper", "The Gatewood Thing", "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", "The Goiden Horseshoe", "The House in Turk Street", "The Secret Emperor", "Women Politics and Murder", "Zigzags of Treachery", 620 Eddy, Black Mask, Clues, Including Murder, Phil Cody, Pulps, pure texts, Richard Layman, Robert S. Powell |

Hammett: Including Murder

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Don

A few months back Evan Lewis of Davy Crockett’s Almanack let me know he was drifting into town, so I lined up a day where I could show him and his wife as many of the lost byways, precipice gradiants, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, REH, Willeford | Tagged "Bodies Piled Up", "Night Shots", "The Gatewood Caper", 620 Eddy, Black Mask, Blood and Thunder, Cap Shaw, Clues, Dave Lewis, Donald Wandrei, E. R. Hagemann, Evan Lewis, Frederick Nebel, Howard Wandrei, Humanities Research Center, Including Murder, John D. MacDonald, Leslie Charteris, Lester Dent, Lillian Hellman, Pulps, pure texts, Robert S. Powell, Terry Zobeck, Tony Hillerman, Will Murray |

Hammett: “You’ve Never Read Hammett!”

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Don

A few years ago I was in the now gone “M” Is For Mystery Bookstore for a talk. Near the end of the remarks the speaker — kind of an absurd little guy — suddenly remembered that the collection Crime Stories … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, Tour | Tagged "Death and Company", "This King Business", Black Mask, Book Collecting, Crime Stories, Falcon from Knopf, Frederic Dannay, Library of America, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover |

Hammett: “Night Shots”

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Don

Terry Zobeck is back with another set of pure text corrections for a Continental Op story you thought you knew inside out — but if you’ve been relying on the reprint version used in books for the last sixty-six years … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "Night Shots", Black Mask, Clark Evans, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Library of Congress, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: “The Vicious Circle”

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Don

Fresh off his dive into the archives in the Library of Congress, Terry Zobeck is back with a new set of pure text corrections for one of Hammett’s earliest stories — he apologises for the cover image of the issue … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "The Man Who Stood in the Way", "The Vicious Circle", Black Mask, Clark Evans, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Library of Congress, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One |

Rediscovered: E. Hoffmann Price

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Don

Will Hart has been piling up a Visual-Bibliography for the prolific pulp fictioneer Edgar Hoffmann Price on Flickr — photos, colorful magazine covers, some stories and letters. If you’ve gumshoed along on the Hammett tour, chances are good that you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH, Tour | Tagged Argosy, E. Hoffmann Price, Lovecraft, Pulps, Weird Tales, Will Hart |

Hammett: Only Four to Go

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Don

Terry Zobeck followed through on his plan to hit the Library of Congress in search of pure texts for Hammett stories, and cut the list of seven missing texts down to only four. Plus he copied various other items for research … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged Black Mask, Book Collecting, Library of Congress, Pulps, pure texts, Raymond Chandler, Terry Zobeck, The Forum, The New York Evening Post, Western Advertising, Zobeck Series One |

Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Don

How about another chunk out of the long essay “Conan the Argonaut” by me and Morgan Holmes to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of H. P. Lovecraft? Straight from the word doc, pretty self-explanatory: After the First … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Argosy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Farnsworth Wright, L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Pulps, S.T. Joshi, Sam Moskowitz, Weird Tales, Zane Grey |

Rediscovered: An Aside on John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Don

In 2008, under my occasional nom de guerre George Knight, I collaborated with Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes on “Conan the Argonaut” for the August issue of The Cimmerian, V5n4 — covering the idea that if he had lived Robert E. … Continue reading →