Sunday, February 14, 2016

Best College Verse, with a dash of Lovecraftians

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The beginning of the Depression was not the best time to launch a new series collecting the best verse by college students. Yet Harper &...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

Vincent Price Reads Lord Dunsany

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The top half of the album (the whole is too big for my scanner) I just pulled out an old Caedmon record to listen to Vincent Price readi...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Kenneth Morris's "Shon ap Shenkin"

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It took me years to understand some references in one of Kenneth Morris's letters to Ella Young.  On 28 February 1928, Morris sent Young...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

A Place I’d Like to Window-Shop

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This photograph of a window display from the September 1898 issue of The Bookman makes me want to time travel.   I can see The Lark ...
Friday, January 15, 2016

A. A. Wyn and Ace Books

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A.A. Wyn (1898-1967) founded Ace Books in 1952, having worked for many years previously in the pulps and the comics under the business name ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Lovecraft Left His Mark

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H.P. Lovecraft was heavily involved with amateur journalism in the United Amateur Press Association, and served as Official Editor of The Un...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

No, that's not Eleanor M. Ingram!

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A few months ago Villianous Press reissued Eleanor M. Ingram's horror novel The Thing from the Lake , originally published in 1921 sever...
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