Tag Archives: The Cimmerian

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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Mort: Robert Weinberg

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Don

Courtesy Leo Grin, the shot above first appeared (in b&w) in The Cimmerian V1n3 for August 2004 — showing Bob Weinberg gleefully enacting the abduction of the 1937 edition of A Gent from Bear Creek from the Robert E. Howard … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Enter the Barb!

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Don

Barbarian, that is. . . . Just about a week ago I mentioned the news that Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes was up for a Hugo Award, and said, “Now, if only he had a book out collecting some of the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: John D. Haefele on Fungi from Yuggoth

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Don

Remember how John D. Haefele was nudging me to do a reread on H. P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth sonnet cycle a few months ago, which led to my micro-essay “Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft”? I give Haefele a blurb … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Academic Wankery” and the Rise of the Uninformed

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Don

Image above: Howardian academics confronted with a Deconstructionist Debacle — image itself, a Footnote to the Great Flivver War of 2015 (academics love their footnotes, and this pic precisely captures my view of academics and their apparatus). While of course I intend … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: When Time Proves You Right

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Don

Needless to say, you get some soul-satisfaction out of being proven right — and I’m more fortunate than most in that I have been messing around the Robert E. Howard fan arena for decades, with the opportunity to be proven … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons” vs. Lovecraft

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Don

Let’s kick off LitCrit Month by flipping a grenade into the complacent multitudes of Lovecraft fans, milling about the base of his fane, mumbling inchoate incantations to Cthulhu and company. I’m guessing that most Lovecraft fans never read Brian Leno’s … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons from Hell from Lovecraft”

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Don

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 →

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Rediscovered: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!!! — and Just in Time for Halloween

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Don

The fully revised,  expanded trade paperback edition of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos went live on Amazon yesterday — with the look inside the first thirty or so pages to come in the next few weeks, and the cover … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Adios, Tuco

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Don

While I’m not even trying to mention the passing of every movie star, I’ve got to acknowledge the death of Eli Wallach (1915-2014) on June 24, taking out another third of the trinity from The Good, the Bad, and the … Continue reading →

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