Tag Archives: Weird Tales

Sinister Cinema: Ghost Breakers

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Don

As the fourth presentation in his Pulps in the Movies series, John Locke introduces us to a new wrinkle in the pulp sighting game. He’s already established spotting actual wood pulp fictionmags in old movies and even relatively modern movies. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Hamilton and Finlay, “He That Hath Wings” — or, Weird Tales, The Lost Illustrations

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Don

Autograph Hound Saturday — and noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook uses one of the Edmond Hamilton signatures from his collection to spin a little yarn about the Hamster (1904-1977) and Weird Tales and the legendary artist Virgil Finlay … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: “I’ll See You an England and Raise You a Rud”

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Don

Before he finally retired, Brian Leno spent many long years dealing cards in gambling dens in North Dakota — giving him some authentic Mean Streets cred and pocket money to toss against his Autograph Hound addiction. So when Kevin Cook … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Derleth in re: Weird Tales

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Don

In about a month John D. Haefele’s third article for the newly revived Crypt of Cthulhu will hit the eldritch and squamous streets — covering August Derleth’s various published commentaries on the magazine Weird Tales. The mag where a teenaged Derleth … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Kevin Cook on Full Auto

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Don

And Kevin Cook — noted pulp and book collector — couldn’t resist sending in some remarks on the subject of autographs. I’m fairly sure Brian Leno has a bigger auto collection, but when it comes to pulp era signers, Kevin may … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Edwin Baird Inscription

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Don

It’s Autograph Hound Saturday again, and we all know the biggest Autograph Hound making paw prints on These Mean Streets is none other than Brian Leno. Given this opportunity to display a few of the John Hancocks in his trove, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Rejections (W)right Up to the End

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Don

You know that Brian Leno loves to jump in on new litcrit as it breaks here on the Mean Streets. And you know that above all the dude is a stone-cold, steely-eyed Autograph Hound. All the ruminating in re: Farnsworth … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: More on the Firing of Farnsworth Wright

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Don

Checking the Wikipedia entry for Farnsworth Wright just now, I see that they have the whole issue of whether or not he was fired as editor of Weird Tales boiled down to the inaccurate line “Wright’s failing health forced him to resign as … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Correctomundo Once More

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Don

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 →

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Two-Gun Bob: Conan — in Jeopardy(!)

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Don

After getting back to the lair after rolling up to catch Peter Field’s talk in the Tenderloin Museum last night (also grabbed a copy of his new history of The TL — you’ll like it, lots of pictures), I opened … Continue reading →

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