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[sacentaur]

And, fresh out of the mail today, my second pulp with Lovecraft in it:

 

 

Front cover is loose, back cover is missing, but the book itself is otherwise nice page quality and structure. And the list of items where I wanted at least a sample in my collection it ticks off is pretty impressive:

 

a) I now have a Brundage cover in my collection.

b) I now have a Robert E. Howard story in my collection.

c) I now have a H. P. Lovecraft story in Weird Tales in my collection.

 

Then, as just plain bonuses, it's also got a 2nd story by Lovecraft, ghost-written for Hazel Heald, and a Hyperborea story by Clark Ashton Smith, before we even get out of the Mythos. I might wish for the Howard story to have been one of his famous characters rather than a random little story, but otherwise it's hard to imagine a better representative issue of the 30's Weird Tales to have in my collection.

 

So interesting how HPL rewrote/ghosted stories for various people - that looks to be an all-around terrific issue, congrat's.

[OtherEric]

Yes- great ish. ‘Green Tea’ by Le Fanu is a classic, and the CAS ‘Ubbo Sathla’ a personal fave. The Quinn story, ‘The Hand of Glory’ intriguing as I wonder if relates to the attached. & Super Brundage… (ps- sure would like to see 'Voodoo Song' the Counselman verse...)

 

Just for you, since you asked nice:

 

[Pat Calhoun]

Thank you. Ever since reading 'The Three Marked Pennies' she's been a name I look for, and 'Obambou' did not disappoint. Solid old-school verse... I superimposed this one from issue I have onto Dolgov WT found online...

[Dr. Love]

 

 

[Dr. Love]

 

 

 

 

[Theagenes]

Hi guys! Haven't been on the boards much in a while. Things have been crazy the last six months or so -- much of it pulp-related (Pat, I know I need to get up with you now that I'm coming up for air). I just finished editing a collection of academic essays on Weird Tales that will be out in October from Rowman and Littlefield. I was hired as the REH technical adviser and art director for the new Conan RPG from Modiphius Games, and that's been a lot of work. I had the Pulp Studies symposium at the PCA/ACA conference in New Orleans in April and of course Howard Days in June. And I'll be a guest at Necronomicon in Providence later this month. Phew!

 

I'm getting caught up on posts and seeing some new faces and some sweet books! Steve, congrats on the HPL postcard -- that is very cool!

 

I have managed to pick up a few cool books lately. This is a really tough one in any grade despite being a Street & Smith title. The cover is from the REH El Borak story "Country of the Knife."

 

 

[Theagenes]

And of course this is also an REH story. Sam Walser was the pseudnym Howard used when writing for the spicies.

 

 

Edited August 2, 2015 by Theagenes

[Theagenes]

But here's my new baby. Nuff said.

 

 

Edited August 2, 2015 by Theagenes

[sacentaur]

Steve, congrats on the HPL postcard -- that is very cool!

 

Thanks Jeff, I absolutely love it - nice to have you back.

 

Man, those Spicy covers really are something else...

[BangZoom]

Hi guys! Haven't been on the boards much in a while. Things have been crazy the last six months or so -- much of it pulp-related (Pat, I know I need to get up with you now that I'm coming up for air). I just finished editing a collection of academic essays on Weird Tales that will be out in October from Rowman and Littlefield. I was hired as the REH technical adviser and art director for the new Conan RPG from Modiphius Games, and that's been a lot of work. I had the Pulp Studies symposium at the PCA/ACA conference in New Orleans in April and of course Howard Days in June. And I'll be a guest at Necronomicon in Providence later this month. Phew!

 

I'm getting caught up on posts and seeing some new faces and some sweet books! Steve, congrats on the HPL postcard -- that is very cool!

 

I have managed to pick up a few cool books lately. This is a really tough one in any grade despite being a Street & Smith title. The cover is from the REH El Borak story "Country of the Knife."

 

 

 

Welcome back, Jeff.

 

Sounds like you've been busy with lots of interesting projects lately. Please keep us informed whenever events warrant updates. I definitely want to read that book of essays concerning WT.

 

I love the scans you posted. Those issues are ones I've never seen before.

 

 

[detective35]

Two thumbs way up on the All Story, Jeff.

 

 

Dwight

[adamstrange]

 

 

Brutal!

[Theagenes]

 

 

Brutal!

 

Bane prototype?!

[Theagenes]

 

Welcome back, Jeff.

 

Sounds like you've been busy with lots of interesting projects lately. Please keep us informed whenever events warrant updates. I definitely want to read that book of essays concerning WT.

 

I love the scans you posted. Those issues are ones I've never seen before.

 

 

It's good to be back! Here's another pulp-related project I completed this spring. It's a facsimile edition of one the rarest and most sought after REH-collectibes: the Hyborian Age fanzine published by LANY Cooperative in 1938. LANY stands for NY and LA and was a group of east coast and west coast fans, including Forrie Ackerman and Donald Wollheim. It contains the first full publication of Howard's Hyborian Age essay, the first published map of the Hyborian Age, and the first apeparance of the famous essay by John D. Clark and P. Schuyler MIller, "A Probable Outline of Conan's Career." And I wrote a new introductory essay on its history and background.

 

This was a labor of love putting this together. It took scans from three different copies to put this together, Glenn Lord's copy, Rusty Hevelin's copy, and the copy that belonged to early fan Jack Darrow.

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hyborian-Age-Facsimile-Edition/dp/069244758X

 

 

[sacentaur]

That's really interesting, Jeff - the HPL introductory letter is a classic in itself.

 

So with REH passing in 1936, and HPL in 1937, the LANY Co-op basically shepherded this to publication in 1938, is that the gist of things?

[RedFury]

Great books, Jeff! And welcome back. I love the "Tarzan At the Earth's Core" one especially.

[Theagenes]

That's really interesting, Jeff - the HPL introductory letter is a classic in itself.

 

So with REH passing in 1936, and HPL in 1937, the LANY Co-op basically shepherded this to publication in 1938, is that the gist of things?

 

It was actually their only publication together. Wollheim had the Hyborian Age essay as he had already run part of it his fanzine Phantagraph in 1936. And Miller was part of the west coast scene and had written his Probable Outline essay after corresponding with Howard right before his death. So I think they all just decided to combine all their material into a tribute zine.

[sacentaur]

So I think they all just decided to combine all their material into a tribute zine.

 

That makes sense, thanks Jeff.

 

Item added to my Wish List. (thumbs u

[HRCostigan]

I have some nagging curiosity about the spicy pulps (I guess that makes me an old soul ) but very few are ever posted here. They don't seem ultra rare, at least as a genre. I am wondering if there are just none in the boardie collections, or is it just shame or is there an unspoken rule or feeling of impropriety involved? Just curious.

[OtherEric]

I have some nagging curiosity about the spicy pulps (I guess that makes me an old soul ) but very few are ever posted here. They don't seem ultra rare, at least as a genre. I am wondering if there are just none in the boardie collections, or is it just shame or is there an unspoken rule or feeling of impropriety involved? Just curious.

 

The covers make them a bit higher demand, and to be honest there's relatively few writers I'm trying to track down in them. So I don't have any, and they're not really on my radar other than "I wouldn't mind getting one or two just to have a sample of them in the collection."

 

If I were to ever get one, I would post it here, just like I posted the Weird Tales I got a few days ago. Any shame I might feel over the subject matter disappears completely when the book came out decades before I was born; it's a collector's item at this point.