Tag Archives: Morgan Holmes

Rediscovered: Good Farny v. Bad Farny

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Don

Coming up for air after a long plunge into the edit on John Haefele’s magnum opus on Lovecraft, I thought of an observation from John Locke that I spotted awhile back.  I guess the coverage of “The Shunned House” in the … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: A Quick Meditation on Arriving Too Late on the Scene

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Don

Another factor in hitting the Second Sunday fan gathering was that Tom Krabacher — an academic of many years standing, but also a longtime fan (he’s planning on doing a Dum Dum next year for Edgar Rice Burroughs enthusiasts) — … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Famous No.1, then Leno No.1, then. . .

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Don

After I blurbed that my new eBook Famous Someday got to no.1 on the Amazon list for Kindle — sub-category horror, sub-sub-category litcrit on horror — I realized that it probably hadn’t been the actual no.1. It was no.1 in the … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: The First Robert E. Howard Biograph TriplePunchPack

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Don

Yesterday the eBook Famous Someday popped on Kindle — another Robert E. Howard TriplePunchPack from The Cimmerian Press, but this time instead of litcrit the concentration is on biography. Interviews with people who knew REH. Investigations into books from the library of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Where Are the Words of the Week of Yesteryear?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Don

When I got up this morning to view the solar eclipse through a spaghetti strainer (not the opening words I ever imagined for a blog post), I was happy to see that my eBook LitCrit MegaPack on Texas writer Robert … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Carroll John Who? H. Warner What?

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Don

On the tour in recent years (three or four years ago, five, not twenty years ago, not thirty-five) a woman mentioned that her uncle — or maybe he was her great-uncle — like Hammett also had written for the pulp Black Mask. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Bit More on Unique Legacy

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Don

And how about another new Guest Blogger dipping his toes into the Mean Streets waters? Today we feature Kevin Cook with a brief review of the academic litcrit collection The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales, which originally ran in his zine … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Unique Legacy, Still Waiting on Godot. . .

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Don

How about a new Guest Blogger for These Mean Streets? You’ve encountered Tom Krabacher’s name here before, notably in my report on PulpFest 2015. Just yesterday I was dismissing the academic compilation The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales (yet another poorly-edited … Continue reading →

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Smackdown: The Morgman Beats Noah Ward

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Don

— but loses Best Fan Writer Hugo to Mike Glyer, the guy who does the newszine File 770. Maybe next year. But Morgan knocked the hell out of Noah Ward. At least I think that’s what happened. If you want … Continue reading →

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BIREME: The Robert E. Howard VEHICLE OF THE WEEK

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Don

If I don’t have the dates all messed up, I think tonight we learn whether or not Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes goes from Hugo Nominee to Hugo WINNER! And good luck, Morgan. As a scholar of decades standing in the … Continue reading →

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