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Tag Archives: John D. Haefele
Two-Gun Bob: Appreciating an American Tough Guy
John D. Haefele told me I was way off the other day when I said that one of his chapters in the upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales ran 50,000 words, at least in rough draft. He figured it probably was … Continue reading
Rediscovered: The Lost Arkham Imprint
I forgot to mention that John D. Haefele wrapped up his three-part series on August Derleth and the Little Review. The third part is kind of the good one — the closer — since it deals with Derleth’s own little … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, August Derleth, Hawk & Whipoorwill, John D. Haefele, Stan McNail
Rediscovered: Haefele IDs HPL in Medieval France!
Holy Cow! Our pal John D. Haefele went off for a little vacation, and when in France, apparently stepped across a dimensional boundary that put him smackdab into Clark Ashton Smith’s Averoigne — or some weird clime that lies out … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Averoigne, Clark Ashton Smith, Colmar France, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, St. Martin's Church
Rediscovered: More on Derleth and the Little Review Phenom
A couple of weeks back John D. Haefele began a series of posts on August Derleth and the Little Review and part two just went live over on the Allied Authors of Wisconsin site, if you want to check it … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, Lit
Tagged August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Galley Sail Review, John D. Haefele, Stan McNail
Rediscovered: Derleth and Little Reviews
If you know much about August Derleth, you know he made his rep equally between writing for pulps such as Weird Tales and doing the more artsy wordplay for Little Reviews — eventually he even combined the two fields of … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Lit, News, Tour
Tagged August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, James Crumley, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Missoula, The Frontier, Weird Tales
Smackdown: The Morgman vs. the Fires of Hell! and Other Perils
For the delectation of Sword-and-Sorcery fans everywhere, how about a gander at another proof cover for the eBook Enter the Barbarian by Morgan Holmes? Maybe you’d call it a draft cover, though, since it never went out with a proof … Continue reading
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
Rediscovered: Podcast from Arkham Country
No doubt I shoulda/woulda done a post yesterday for the anniversary of Hammett’s death in 1961, but I got a request close to the last minute to join a podcast about August Derleth and the Cthulhu Mythos for The Lovecraft eZine. … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH
Tagged August Derleth, Cthulhu Mythos, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Lovecraft eZine
Rediscovered: Predictive Fate of Young Belknapius
Image above: Frank Belknap Long, left, and H.P. Lovecraft clowning around for the camera. Terry Zobeck just told me that he picked up a Complete Stories of Lovecraft on January 3, after seeing all the references to HPL here on … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Ben P. Indick, Frank Belknap Long, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Peter Cannon, Terry Zobeck
