Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. 
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1977-2022
Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973
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Tag Archives: “The Red Brain”
Hammett: And Wandrei
John D. Haefele’s blurbage on Creeps by Night nudged me to get my copy of the Belmont paperback The Red Brain off the Donald Wandrei/E. Hoffmann Price/H. Warner Munn shelf where it lives, to look into once more. The Don/Ed/Harold … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit
Tagged "The Red Brain", Book Collecting, Carl Jacobi, Creeps by Night, Donald Wandrei, Dorothy McIlwraith, Farnsworth Wright, Fritz Leiber, John D. Haefele, Weird Tales
Hammett: And Derleth
Yesterday we had a guest post from Brian Leno, and today John D. Haefele drops back into the action. Want to find out what August Derleth of Arkham House had to do with Creeps by Night, the anthology of weird fiction edited … Continue reading
Rediscovered: You Can’t Win
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
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, SFSC
Tagged "The Red Brain", Book Collecting, City Lights, Donald Wandrei, Green Apple Books, Jack Black, John Law, Kevin Hunsanger, Kindle, Pulps, The Big Knockover, William S. Burroughs, You Can't Win
