Tag Archives: Weird Tales

Rediscovered: Weird Tales, Paperbacked and eBooked

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Don

Just the other day Terry Zobeck did up a list of pretty much everything Hammett ever wrote or edited, including a single anthology — of horror fiction. Creeps by Night. Take a gander at the cover for a British paperback reprint of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged August Derleth, Creeps by Night, Cthulhu Mythos, Doug Draa, eBooks, Farnsworth Wright, Frank Belknap Long, Haefele's Heretics, Lovecraft, Pulps, Robert Bloch, Terry Zobeck, Weird Tales |

Sinister Cinema: And the Bleak Noir Rains Crashed Down

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Don

I’ve got my slideshow talk in Livermore tomorrow, after warming up with the Q&A in Novato the other day. Wow. You can tell when you’re showing a genuine noir classic, because the sky breaks open and cold rain paints everything in shades … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News, Willeford | Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, IMDb, John Huston, Lovecraft, Novato Theater, Oscar, Peter O'Toole, Philip Rahman, Sidney Greenstreet, Weird Tales |

Smackdown: Haefele’s Back, with the Eldritch Truth

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Don

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

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Don

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 |

Rediscovered: Of Derleth and Dreamland

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Don

Until I came to San Francisco in 1974, I had lived most of my life only 70 miles from Nashville. I believe it was a couple of years later, during a two year stint in St. Paul, when I landed a copy of the weird … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, REH | Tagged Alan Gullette, Ambrosia, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Cthulhu Mythos, Henry Kuttner, Joe T. Soshi, John D. Haefele, July 4, Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft, M.R. James, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert M. Price, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: More Contrappasso

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Don

Recently a 1977 issue of The Diversifier that I’d never seen before passed through my hands. It included a memoir of Edmond Hamilton by E. Hoffmann Price and a two-pager I hadn’t known about, in which Fritz Leiber discussed his tribulations … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged AHMM, Contrappasso, E. Hoffmann Price, Edmond Hamilton, Elmore Leonard, Farnsworth Wright, Firsts, Floyd Salas, Fritz Leiber, Harry Morris, Kindle, Matthew Asprey, Nyctalops, PW, The Cimmerian, The Diversifier, The Romantist, Weird Tales |

Two-Gun Bob: First, You Crack Argosy

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Don

When the article “Conan the Argonaut” appeared in The Cimmerian in 2008, one of the inset quotes, selected to illustrate the mindset that essay argues against, came from Lin Carter in his 1973 book on fantasy literature, Imaginary Worlds, where he … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", "Conan vs. Conantics", A. Merritt, Brian Leno, Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Allan England, Harold Lamb, Harry Morris, Imaginary Worlds, John Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Nyctalops, Otis Adelbert Kline, PulpFest, Pulps, Rafael Sabatini, Ray Cummings, Talbot Mundy, Tarzan, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales |

Rediscovered: The Lost World of Pulp!

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Don

In less than a week I’m off to PulpFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, with side trips to look up Jim Tully sites in St. Marys plus check out one of the world’s best privately held collections of M. P. Shiel — and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Brian Leno, Clark Ashton Smith, Conan, Dime Detective, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I. V. Frost, Jim Tully, John D. Squires, John Lawrence, M. P. Shiel, Marquis of Broadway, Mike Nevins, Pawang Ali, PulpFest, pure texts, Raymond Chandler, Terry Zobeck, The Shadow, Weird Tales |

Hammett: And Lovecraft

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Don

Whoa. Friday the 13th. Time to get a little eldritch and unspeakable for Biography Month. . . . And unspeaking of H. P. Lovecraft, I admit I’m just as interested in the Could Have Beens of a writer’s life as the Plain … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan the Argonaut", Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Farnsworth Wright, Including Murder, Lovecraft, Pulps, Raymond Chandler, The Cimmerian, Weird Tales |

Two-Gun Bob: PulpFest 2012

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Don

Among other things PulpFest is going to commemorate this year will be the eightieth anniversary of the coming of Robert E. Howard’s Conan — exploding into the culture in the December 1932 issue of Weird Tales. In many ways, and given that Howard … Continue reading →