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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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Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.”
Tag Archives: Solar Pons
Rediscovered: Abe & Roy
Autograph Hound Saturday once more, and that notable maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno brings the John Hancock of the famous pulpster Abraham Merritt back to These Mean Streets. Plus the artist Roy Hunt also makes a return, after showing up … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Some Arkham in the House
Courtesy an eagle-eyed bud of mine, ever perched over eBay, I landed a couple of Items of Arkham House ephemera I needed just a couple of days ago. If you consult the list I did of the classic era Derleth-Wandrei … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Scott Connors, Solar Pons
Rediscovered: Those Signed Arkhams
Before doing the panel at Signman: John Law the other evening, I made plans to stop into Bibliomania — very close, in the heart of downtown Oakland, one of the classic bookstores of yesteryear but still in business today. I hadn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Autographs, Bibliomania, Book Collecting, E. Hoffmann Price, Greye La Spina, John D. Haefele, Kevin Cook, Seabury Quinn, Solar Pons
Rediscovered: Who Knows Solar Pons?
Who knows Pons? Well, John D. Haefele for one. Haefele just put up a post on the Allied Authors blog in which he ruminates in re: August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street. He gets into all manner of esoterica, … Continue reading
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
Frisco Beat: Big Sale at Kayo; or, The Adventure of the French Translator
Yesterday I met up with noir writer Kent Harrington from Posse McMillan and Nordine Haddad, Kent’s French translator who is in the burg for a little visit before he and Kent wander off to NoirCon in Philly in a week … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, DMac, Frisco, Lit, News, Tour
Tagged August Derleth, House of Fans, Kayo Books, Kent Harrington, Noir Con, Nordine Haddad, Solar Pons
Rediscovered: Further Pontine Ephemera
Remember that cache of Arkham House ephemera I landed the other week, anchored by a TLS by August Derleth on a Solar Pons greeting card he had had printed up? I thought just having the little signed note by Derleth … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Solar Pons
Dove back into one of my favorite hobbies recently, when I landed a ten item trove of Arkham House ephemera. Ordered them mostly blind, though I had the sense that an item I needed might possibly be in the lot. … Continue reading
Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft”
I got a note from Bob Byrne — who you may know as “the Solar Pons guy” who wrote that thorough survey of Bogie vs. Raft I linked to awhile back — asking if I’d contribute to a symposium he’s … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged "Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft", Black Gate, Bob Byrne, Brian Leno, Lovecraft, Solar Pons, The Cimmerian
