Tag Archives: William Hope Hodgson

Rediscovered: A Ghost-Seer for Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Don

Leading up to Halloween I finally picked up my 1998 Ash-Tree Press edition of Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice and Claude Askew and read through. A solid set of eight British occult detective tales, all published in two months — … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Alice and Claude Askew, Ash-Tree Press, E.G. Swain, Hugh Lamb, Jack Adrian, M.P. Dare, Richard Dalby, The Great War, William Hope Hodgson |

Rediscovered: A Cyclopean Memorial to Lovecraft

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Don

Brian Leno timed this one nicely! I thought he might take another week or two for a formal (or as formal as Leno gets) review of Lovecraft: The Great Tales. But no. For the eighty-fourth anniversary of the death of … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Brian Leno, Farnsworth Wright, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, William Hope Hodgson |

Rediscovered: So Far, So Good

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Don

I told Brian Leno he could do a formal review for Mean Streets of John D. Haefele’s Lovecraft: The Great Tales whenever he finishes. But of course, no one will be sitting down and reading that monster of litcrit in … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged A. Merritt, Brian Leno, Clark Ashton Smith, Farnsworth Wright, Frank Owen, Hazel Heald, Henry S. Whitehead, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Rob Roehm, S.T. Joshi, Weird Tales, William Hope Hodgson |

Rediscovered: Philip “Fungus” Fisher

Posted on September 7, 2019 by Don

For Autograph Hound Saturday our resident Autograph Hound Brian Leno trots out yet another signature from his not inconsiderable holdings. Brian says: “Philip M. Fisher, Jr., is not a name that immediately comes to mind when collectors talk of the … Continue reading →