Tag Archives: Robert E. Howard Library

Rediscovered: The eMask, Live Today!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Don

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: H.C. Witwer, Author & Boozehound

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Don

Do yourself a favor and surf over to Brian Leno’s latest post on the TGR site about the bestselling 1920s boxing writer H.C. Witwer, one of legions of forgotten key-pounders of yesteryear — but I suspect Brian just gave him a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Brian Leno, H.C. Witwer, literary boozehounds, Robert E. Howard Library, Steve Eng, The Dark Barbarian |

Rediscovered: Further Smackdown for Zane Grey!

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Don

Who knew that my brief account of visiting the Zane Grey Pueblo on Santa Catalina would rouse my occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno to relive a dreaded literary memory, and follow me into the ring to beat up some on … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged August Derleth, Brian Leno, Cynthia Anne Parker, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frederick Russell Burnham, Graham-Tewksbury Feud, H. L. Mencken, H. Rider Haggard, Lovecraft, Mormons, Nook, Pleasant Valley War, Quanah Parker, Real West, Robert E. Howard Library, Sax Rohmer, Steve Eng, The Dark Barbarian, Tom Horn, Zane Grey, Zane Grey Pueblo |

Two-Gun Bob: The Shadow of Zane Grey

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Don

In the section on Robert E. Howard’s Library in The Dark Barbarian from 1984, Steve Eng pointed out that “A look at the volumes of poetry may discover lines that are echoed in Howard’s verse.” True enough. And you also … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged August Derleth, Charles Siringo, John Wesley Hardin, Kindle, Robert E. Howard Library, Steve Eng, Tevis Clyde Smith, The Dark Barbarian, Zane Grey, Zane Grey Pueblo |

Rediscovered: Zane Grey on Kindle

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Don

A couple of years ago I got a Kindle as a gift from Vince Emery, so I could check out how The Dashiell Hammett Tour book looked in that format — now, suddenly, highly ironic. On my own, I probably … Continue reading →