Tag Archives: Pulps

Rediscovered: The Shadow of PulpFest

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Don

What do you think, in the photo above shot on the May 8, 2011 tour, I look more like The Shadow and Mike Chomko, swathed in blue, looks more like Superman, right? My hands float, missing the comforting weight of fully-loaded … Continue reading →

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Hammett: “One Hour”

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Don

Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck returns with another look into the edits made by Fred Dannay, and this time finds that the blue pencil smote lightly back in 1944! Plus he discovers yet another “pure text” Hammett story available in a modern … Continue reading →

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Death Lit: More on Parker

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Don

Terry Zobeck and I have been working behind the scenes to polish up some of his “pure texts” posts, in particular his first shot at it for “This King Business.” Looking it over again, Terry realized he’d left any changes … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Ode to Op

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Don

Damon Sasser just popped me a link to “This Ain’t Sherlock Holmes,” a nice tribute to Hammett’s Op tales on the Vintage Crime website — written by Scott Montgomery, who may be the same Scott Montgomery I met during the secret noir … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Haefele Roaming Around the Arkham Hills

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Don

My Arkham House ephemera collecting pal John D. Haefele returns to print with “Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House” in the premiere issue of Weird Fiction Review from Centipede Press. John last got a blurb on this … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Have Pen, Will Edit

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Don

Terry Zobeck returns for another Guest Blog spot, to kick off the month of June. He plans on more posts on pure texts to follow his detailed surveys of “This King Business” and “Death and Company.”  This time he looks into a … Continue reading →

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Hammett: More on “Death”

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Don

Prompted by Terry Zobeck’s post on “Death and Company,” I pulled out my Dell Mapback edition of The Return of the Continental Op and checked through all his corrections. Took a little bit of work, since Terry’s page and line numbers refer to … Continue reading →

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Hammett: The Real “Business”

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Don

I just hosted my first Guest Blogger, Brian Leno — how about another one? Up this time is Terry Zobeck, whose name may ring a bell because he turned up the source for the quote where Hammett had called the … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: A Century of Fantômas

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Don

Okay, I don’t know how this one got put on the calendar, other than via the interest and tireless efforts of Peter Maravelis, teamed up with a horde of local Fantômas fans and no less than the French Embassy — but … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: You Can’t Win

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Don

Out of the legions of neglected books from all the books that have come and gone in all the world, very few return to any kind of currency. Once the book slips out of print, or the generation of readers that made it … Continue reading →

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