Pat Calhoun

Picked this out with Fantasy Reader #13 to share the shipping, and because I always buy a few books for my late brother JCC's birthday 9/7, and because I like Lion and didn't have a Prather: this early (May 1952) pbo is one of the few he wrote that wasn't part of his Shell Scott series that ran at Gold Medal all through the '50s and '60s (my mom was a fan), and when GM picked up 'Lie Down, Killer' they ran it through several printings and covers then ditto in their Crest reprint line.

I had so much fun with 'PN40' (Avon SF Reader #3) that I bought an Avon Fantasy Reader #13 to have a copy of Fowler Wright's 'Original Sin', a story that made a huge impression on me as a child: I've never forgotten it, and still consider it a towering short story masterpiece.
The opening part of 'Original Sin' describes the Doctrine of Futility which prompts humankind to commit race suicide by lethal injection...

Go, Cat! your combo of wise and young-at-heart is a winner: wishing you well -Pat

I remember the day I bought this back in Dec 1979. We were taking my infant son Crane down to the East Bay (Berkeley-Oakland) for his first visit to Gina's pals there. While Gina was catching up with them Crane and I made our first bookstore run. $50 was heap o' scrill to us: but the magic kicked in, and I ended up with two children in tow...

I was thrilled to see Michael (aka 'art book' Flex) show some appreciation for 'pet rocks' (in 'the shadow side' of this thread), so I thought I'd post my newest here: 'snakehead', 3" find on Russian River flood plain last week.

Just reread PN40 (some decades in between) and I imagine that while Fowler Wright was pounding this out on his typewriter Dean Swift was smiling in the clouds.

I'm going to go with the 'Magic Shopping Cart' at Lanning's Books in downtown San Diego in the mid-1960s: it was filled with coverless precode comics for a penny apiece. And the highlight of that was the Wolverton SF; 'Brain Bats of Venus' and Swamp Monster' made a visual-verbal phantasmagoria that transcended the printed page: oozing around me in an all-encompassing universe of wonder. The cart always stayed full – new glories and infinite possibilities abounding. I would pull out foot-high stacks searching for the black spines of TrueVision. Also posting ‘Nightmare World’ splash (more BW ‘nuff said) and image of Trina Robbins that accompanied her memoir of diving for ducks, mice, Lulu, etc, maybe a few years after my PCH wallowing…

Cool - Mockingbird has another cover just inside the outer one...

Hawkman and the Spirit were both inspired by their own deaths...

(from early on in the great novel 'Ali & Nino' by Kurban Said) more rug pictures and backstory if possible, please and thanks and cheers

I also have this volume of 'Tales from Jokai' with a nice long biography by the noted translator R. Nisbet Bain (who also translated from Russian and Norwegian). No date but 1908 gift inscription in front...