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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
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Tag Archives: The Cimmerian
Rediscovered: 19 Minutes with Fafhrd and the Mouser, and Fritz
Over on The Pulp.Net I just gave Bill Lampkin the okay to put up an article I did back in 2014 for his zine The Pulpster — a good one, if I say so myself (hell, even definitive), on the … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, Lit, News, REH
Tagged Bill Lampkin, Fafhrd, Fritz Leiber, Harry Otto Fischer, Leo Grin, Sword-and-Sorcery, The Cimmerian, The Gray Mouser, The Pulp.Net, The Pulpster
Rediscovered: Is Haefele’s First Book on the Block?
Currently on eBay from Gunnison of Adventure House — with a Buy It Now tag of $100 — you’ll find what may be John D. Haefele’s first book. Copy no. 41 of 45 numbered copies. He’s not sure — Haefele, … Continue reading
Rediscovered: A Charles Saunders Publication History Moment
Very casually, I’ve begun to poke around looking for content for a LitCrit MegaPack or two, starting by going through Word doc files to see what I have available. Many of my essays pre-date Word doc’ing (and will require the … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged Charles Saunders, Darrell Schweitzer, Farnsworth Wright, George Scithers, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Correctomundo Once More
Ah. And I am proven correct yet again. Most recently, you may recall the post I did largely on the topic of Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright where I noted —reviving the term from a debate in the letters column … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Farnsworth Wright, Fritz Leiber, John Locke, Lovecraft, Otis Adelbert Kline, Otto Binder, Seabury Quinn, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Famous Someday
Although available only for a month and change, Famous Someday now has been officially rediscovered by Evan Lewis for his entry in today’s Forgotten Book Friday roundup. FBF is a deal where 20ish bloggers pick a book, some really forgotten and some … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Evan Lewis, Famous Someday, Forgotten Book Friday, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack
Yesterday the eBook Famous Someday popped on Kindle — another Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack from The Cimmerian Press, but this time instead of litcrit the concentration is on biography. Interviews with people who knew REH. Investigations into books from the library of … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Famous Someday, Kindle, Morgan Holmes, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press
Two-Gun Bob: Earl Baker Ruminations
The furious round of discoveries about Robert E. Howard that Brian Leno — with Scott Connors close on his heels — turned up over the last couple of weeks got the attention of Leo Grin, editor and publisher of the excellent … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Bob Baker, Brian Leno, Doc Howard, Earl Baker, Glenn Lord, June 11 1936, L. Sprague de Camp, Leo Grin, Scott Connors, The Cimmerian, The Cimmerian Press
Sinister Cinema: Two-Gun Bob and Kong
Brian Leno is going nuts with this Robert E. Howard stuff — and more power to him. He just sent me this postscript to one of his groundbreaking essays in The Cimmerian. If you don’t have a solid collection of … Continue reading
Posted in Film, REH
Tagged Brian Leno, Brownwood Texas, Fay Wray, Howard Payne College, Ken Kelly, King Kong, The Cimmerian, The Yellow Jacket
Rediscovered: A Couple of Footnotes
Yesterday, when I mentioned the death of Stan Sargent on March 6, I definitely was thinking what a fatal month March often is — so much so I plan on keeping my head down in an attempt to squeak through … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged Jim Cornelius, Leo Grin, Stan Sargent, Steve Tompkins, The Cimmerian, Tompk
Two-Gun Bob: Where Are the Words of the Week of Yesteryear?
When I got up this morning to view the solar eclipse through a spaghetti strainer (not the opening words I ever imagined for a blog post), I was happy to see that my eBook LitCrit MegaPack on Texas writer Robert … Continue reading
Posted in REH
Tagged Castalia House, Deuce Richardson, flivvers, Leo Grin, Morgan Holmes, REHupa, The Cimmerian, Two-Gun Raconteur