Tag Archives: Robert Bloch

Rediscovered: Milwaukee Party Animals

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Don

Always digging around, John D. Haefele uncovered a fanzine report of a party held in Milwaukee in 1940 — a science fiction and pulp gathering anchored by solving an appropriate rebus puzzle. Meeting in the home of Ralph Milne Farley … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged John D. Haefele, Milwaukee, Ralph Milne Farley, Ray Palmer, Robert Bloch |

Rediscovered: Klarkash-Ton and Brian McNaughton

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Don

Kevin Cook, pulp and book collector, recently retired from the New York City scene to a new home in the South. Over the garage he’s had built a library to display the old collection, the first time in his adult … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Amra, Brian McNaughton, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, Hyborian Legion Bulletin, John D. Squires, Kevin Cook, Robert Bloch, The Hyperborian League, The Throne of Bones, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: Further Pontine Ephemera

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Don

Remember that cache of Arkham House ephemera I landed the other week, anchored by a TLS by August Derleth on a Solar Pons greeting card he had had printed up? I thought just having the little signed note by Derleth … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Allied Authors, Arkham House, August Derleth, Autographs, Book Collecting, John D. Haefele, Mycroft & Moran, Mycroft Holmes, Ray Palmer, Robert Bloch, Sebastian Moran, Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, Vincent Starrett |

Smackdown: The Trusty Index vs. the “Fully Tooled” eBook!

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Don

Besides me and publisher Leo Grin, the only guy who even suspected there was a Big Secret Project underway in the last months of 2014 was John Haefele, and that’s only because I kept teasing him with little morsels of information and really vague hints — … Continue reading →

Posted in News, REH | Tagged Book Collecting, Clark Ashton Smith, John D. Haefele, Leo Grin, Robert Bloch, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All |

Rediscovered: Weird Tales, Paperbacked and eBooked

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Don

Just the other day Terry Zobeck did up a list of pretty much everything Hammett ever wrote or edited, including a single anthology — of horror fiction. Creeps by Night. Take a gander at the cover for a British paperback reprint of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged August Derleth, Creeps by Night, Cthulhu Mythos, Doug Draa, eBooks, Farnsworth Wright, Frank Belknap Long, Haefele's Heretics, Lovecraft, Pulps, Robert Bloch, Terry Zobeck, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: Of Derleth and Dreamland

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Don

Until I came to San Francisco in 1974, I had lived most of my life only 70 miles from Nashville. I believe it was a couple of years later, during a two year stint in St. Paul, when I landed a copy of the weird … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, REH | Tagged Alan Gullette, Ambrosia, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, Henry Kuttner, Joe T. Soshi, John D. Haefele, July 4, Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft, M.R. James, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert M. Price, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: Bob Bloch Refs Jim Tully

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Don

My Robert E. Howard pal Deuce Richardson noticed something he thought I should let fans of Jim Tully know about — no less than Robert Bloch doing a name check on Tully seven years before Tully’s death in 1947. Bloch … Continue reading →