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, you guys are something else! Thanks for the info. Not only does BZ remember the question from 3 years ago (and find the link using the hinky search feature here, which is a miracle in and of itself), but I am provided with that great AH cover with further illuminating information on the exact topic! You boys should think of starting your own detective agency. Now this is one Arkham House book I can say that not only have I never seen, but never even heard of. Good stuff! Now my next question is: how does a gentleman born in Portugese West Africa become 'great friends' with folks that live in Appalachia? Those people really don't trust outsiders (speaking from experience, I lived in Kentucky for five years and had chance to venture into that territory a few times). I guess times could have changed from back then too.

So this might be a stupid question that nobody will have the answer to, but I've always wondered about 'Manly Wade Wellman'. Is that his real name? Is 'Manly' a moniker that he added to make himself, well...more masculine? The name has just always struck me as odd, even for someone born in the early 1900's. Unlike names like Gertrude or Ethel or Melvin or Percy which are now a bit antiquated, I don't think I'm aware of anyone else with the first name of 'Manly' born in any time period. Of course, I don't get out much either.

Those are some great covers! I don't think I've ever seen this series before. The one on the top row, the 3rd from the left looks especially gruesome

This one is on the top of my Arkham House wish list for sure - love the artwork on this edition. Not nearly as hard to find, but also much cheaper is this paperback copy I found for $2.00 at a used bookstore a couple weeks ago - still a fun cover tho:

I hate hyperbole, but that is freaking AWESOME!

What is it with Hodgson and pig monsters? The antagonist of 'House' were swine-creatures as well! I love some of Utpatel's work. I just picked this one up a few weeks ago:

It's available at Project Gutenberg @ The House on the Borderland I just wanted to come back and thank you for the link to the Project Gutenberg site - what a resource! I've never run across it (or any references to it) before and it's quite a find. I do like reading hard copies, i.e.: actual books, but this is certainly going to help me to be able to narrow my focus and purchase the ones that I know I like by previewing the work there for free. It's a definite bookmarked site for me now. I really enjoyed House on the Borderland, though I think I'm going to have to settle for picking up the old Ace paperback rather than the handsome Arkham House edition. Too many other spendy items I need to pick up before that one. Completely unrelated disassociated thought - any time I see the title of this book, I'm thrown back to my younger days and the old D&D module 'The Keep on the Borderlands' issued around 1980, the first role-playing adventure I ever played. Probably not related, but there it is anyway.

I'm not a big sword & sorcery guy (largely why I've never read any REH) but I might have to pick it up considering the cover proclamation and given that I was already planning on trying Kuttner and Moore out anyways. I'm about finished with House on the Borderlands - it's been a fun read (despite his manic love of adjectives, adverbs and commas). It's definitely held my interest and am curious as to how it will all tie together.

Jeepers, that looks fresh off the newsstand! Now I have to find out if that was indeed the weirdest story ever told (I have a hard time believing it's any weirder than The Loved Dead by CM Eddy/HPL).

Kuttner and Moore are two others that I haven't read that are now on my ever expanding list. I love these books you guys have been scanning! Brundage and Finlay are my two favorite WT cover artists, though there are really several fantastic pieces by others as well (many of whom I've never heard of). I really dig a lot of the weird menace covers on some of the other pulps too. Looks like I'll be expanding past my few paltry issues of Planet Stories now. I grew up reading the Bantam Doc Savages when I was a kid (before I even knew what a pulp was) and am kind of surprised I haven't picked any of those up yet. Unfortunately I'm not as enamored with the Doc covers as some of the others (but I love the stories!). Does anyone here collect Doc?

Harlequin Science-Fiction? I had no idea such a thing even existed!

We are yes! I am about a third of the way through and am enjoying the story. Is the rest of Hodgson's stuff similar?

That looks like a lot of fun....unfortunately it's an 8 hour drive one way for me (I'm in Tucson) - not sure I can justify it for only one day (plus, the thought goes through my head how many books I could buy with all the $$ I'll be spending on gas). How big is the show? I can't find a lot of information on it other than the provided link - kind of surprising since it's the biggest show of its kind. Anyone have any pics of past setups?

Got my ASM 1 from Collin on time payments a couple years ago (didn't sell it yet either!) - great guy to work with.

It's available at Project Gutenberg @ The House on the Borderland Thank you sir - reading it right now! I love that Arkham House cover. I have seen it several times before but it didn't register with me that it was this particular story until seeing it here again.

I like the 50's-60's paperback reprints almost as much as I like the pulps or hardbacks that the stories originally appeared in. Most of the time they are a lot easier to find and they've got a character all their own. I've not read any Hodgson. That one looks pretty interesting.

Dangit you guys have convinced me. I signed up for membership on the REH Foundation website and am going to pick up a 2nd print of that Weird Menace book along with the three volumes of letters. Thanks a lot. (No really!) My pocketbook is cringing at the thought of fully stepping into the pulp world. I've picked up the stray Planet Stories here and there, but I've managed to avoid Weird Tales and the like. I have a feeling browsing this forum will be the death knell for my fun money. As if starting an Arkham House collection wasn't enough.

Wow, that Tales of Weird Menace looks awesome - bummer that it's sold out, it looks like something I'd like. I'll have to keep an eye out for the reprint. I'm not bothered by the language of the day, I've read tons of Lovecraft's correspondence and understand that the accepted prejudices of that time and the understanding of them was much different from what they are now. I was (again) late to the party for the Hippocampus hardback release of both Lovecraft's letters to Howard AND Derleth (Essential Solitude). I'm kind of bummed that the Derleth letters might not be reprinted. I talked to Derek Hussey from Hippocampus at the con and he indicated that they needed April Derleth's permission to reprint the volume and he's not sure if (or when) that will happen. I'm positive that 'A Means to Freedom' will sell out though, so hopefully that will provide impetus to get the Derleth letters reprinted too. That Robert E. Howard Foundation website is outstanding. I might have to pick up those volumes of letters.

that's what I get for not looking again Oh excellent, thanks for the link and synopsis! I've already added the Horror Stories book to my cart. If I like it well enough, maybe I'll hail you down about Skull Face later if you still have it Are you (or anyone else here) interested in Howard's letters? Hippocampus Press is releasing a paperback version of A Means To Freedom collecting all of the existing Howard/Lovecraft correspondence in 2 volumes for $55 (the hardback was limited to a couple hundred copies and sold out almost instantly a couple of years ago). I'm fascinated by the letters of the Lovecraft circle and judging from the reviews, these would be of much interest to fans of both Lovecraft and Howard. Between this thread and attending MythosCon in Phoenix (an HPL based con held in January) filling me with ideas of things to read, it's going to take me all year to get out from under the books piled on my table.

Wow, that's nice. It's making me re-think the copy I passed up at the VCC last weekend (obviously not as nice as yours). What a great cover. How are the stories? I'm ashamed to say I've never read any of Howard's stuff (I'm not a big barbarian guy). I know he wrote stuff besides Conan, I've just never gotten around to it.

I haven't ventured much into the Gold Comics forum being that I'm still (fairly) new to the genre even though I've collected L.B. Cole horror covers for a while. I have checked out the Cole covers thread, but didn't realize how extensive this part of the forum was. I found this thread and wow - it's going to take me a long time to go through 1300 pages! Jerry Siegel has great taste being that he unwittingly praised H.P. Lovecraft when he referenced reading 'The Last Test' and 'The Electric Executioner' which were both almost entirely written by the old gent by way of his revision client (Castro). Coincidentally I just read both of these recently in Arkham's 'The Horror in the Museum' and his stamp is all over them. Not his best work, but after reading all of his known stuff, the revisions are fun in their own way. Despite being a fan for 30 years, I've never read any of his revision work and am going slowly so as not to eat it all up in a short burst. I've been a Lovecraft devotee for many years and have only recently begun collecting 1st edition Arkhams (not just Lovecraft, but others like Derleth, Wandrei & whoever catches my eye) and I have to say that this thread ROCKS! I look forward to reading more...thanks to all who have contributed. However, I'm very afraid of beginning a Weird Tales collection. I really don't need something new to start acquiring

In case of buying and selling some junk.

I have a bunch of signed (mostly Image) books I'll be throwing up for cheep coming a little later today. Includes Lee, Portacio, Larsen, Williams, Smith. They aren't sig series, thus the cheapness. Nothing recent, so no WD or Chew type stuff unfortunately.

I'll be having a big TPB/HC/Magazine sale in the next week or so. I really need to clear some shelf space and raise some money to buy a shiverbones piece, so a bunch of stuff needs to go. As always, cheap prices for all my cheap junk! I've also been thinking about a giant $1 ea. X-Men sale - I've got about 4 longboxes of X-affiliated titles (including a complete run of Wolverine 1-169 or wherever it ended) that is doing nothing but taking up space. I just haven't had the time to scan or take pictures of them, but maybe in the next few weeks.

He hasn't settled with me, but only because I told him I'd hold his books until I have another sales thread to help offset postage. He bought from me one other time I believe and took a little longer than normal to pay, but I do know he paid up that time.