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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

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Tag Archives: S.T. Joshi
Smackdown: Haefele’s Back, with the Eldritch Truth
A new article by John D. Haefele on Lovecraft’s last story sale to Weird Tales, in his lifetime, just got picked up for inclusion in Lovecraft Annual no. 7 — I haven’t read any of the other contents, but the Haefele … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged August Derleth, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Lovecraft Annual, S.T. Joshi, Weird Tales
Two-Gun Bob: An Untidy Mountain of Earth and Other Madnesses
Over on the Two-Gun Raconteur blog our good pal Brian Leno — henceforth to be known as Brian Leno, the Famous Masochist — just posted a review of the new Cthulhu Mythos novel by S.T. Joshi. Pretty much all of … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged August Derleth, Brian Leno, Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi, Weird Tales
John D. Haefele’s “A Look Behind S. T. Joshi’s Review”
It might surprise S. T. Joshi to know how many of our associates in the world of Lovecraft scholarship and fandom are asking that I rebut his scathing review of A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu … Continue reading
Smackdown: Haefele vs. Joshi!
When I first mentioned John D. Haefele’s book on Derleth, Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, I knew he’d eventually catch a barrage or two from the entrenched forces in that arena. And now longtime Lovecraftian and Publishers Weekly editor Peter Cannon suggests … Continue reading
Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today
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





