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Post by deuce on Dec 19, 2017 4:09:48 GMT -5
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Dec 21, 2017 11:26:16 GMT -5
Chris: You will love Wandrei. I corresponded with him a little before he died. He had the reputation of being cranky but he was cool with me. Morgan Morgan - thanks for that insight. It's not often one can correspond with one of the icons of pulp history. They are fast fading from our times. I ordered another Wandrei - Dead Titans Waken!, published by Fedogan & Bremer. This encapsulates Wandrei's two novels, Dead Titans Waken and Invisible Sun. Haven't received yet, but looking forward to digging in to both this novel and the Colossus collection. Here's a description from Abe Books describing Dead Titans: Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. . . one of the most important talents in the Lovecraft Circle comes into his own. Fans old and new will share delight in the weird and wondrous world of Donald Wandrei -- Robert Bloch At the time that Lovecraft died, Donald Wandrei was the most natural successor to him that I could think of. Wandrei s science fiction had a spectral quality to it and was an original achievement. -- Fritz Leiber This volume presents two novels by H.P. Lovecraft s friend and correspondent. DEAD TITANS, WAKEN! is Donald Wandrei s only horror novel, later revised and published by Arkham House as THE WEB OF EASTER ISLAND. Here Fedogan and Bremer provides the original form of the book-- the manuscript critqued and guided by Lovecraft himself, for his younger friend. While Mythos tales as pastiche became an entire genre as the years went by, this horror tale was written long before that trend took hold, and in fact the author didn t think of it as a Mythos story per se. Pulp horror at its finest is on display. The second novel is INVISIBLE SUN, written in the early 1930s but never published during the author s lifetime. Not only was it too raw for general audiences at the time, but also quite experimental by the standards of the time, and indeed in some ways seems remarkably modern in tone over eighty years later. As with Joseph Conrad, there are overtones of psychologic horror implicit in this story culminating in a passionate Jazz Age Minneapolis/St. Paul setting. Noted Weird Fiction and Pulp authority S.T. Joshi provides fulsome comments upon the novels. The notes are completely separated from the stories, so that the reader can enjoy the fiction without distraction. Interior illustrations are by Wandrei s frind, Rodger Gerberding. The cover art is by another of the author s friend, one-time Weird Tales artist Jon Arfstrom. The entire production reflects the strong Twin Cities connections of the Wandrei family. Originally released in a very limited print run in hardcovers by Centipede Press, this book is the first Trade Edition of these works.
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Post by deuce on Dec 23, 2017 8:22:23 GMT -5
Fall 1943. Another "helpless woman" of the pulps.
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Post by deuce on Dec 23, 2017 15:36:43 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 24, 2017 10:33:01 GMT -5
Ed Hulse over at Murania Press has a pretty awesome 20% OFF sale going on through December: muraniapress.com/murania-press/murania-press-2017-year-end-sale/Hulse is very highly respected in the pulp community. His books on various pulp-related topics are considered authoritative and his fanzine, Blood n' Thunder, is thought by many to be the best pulp fanzine ever published. Get the deals while they last.
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Post by deuce on Dec 25, 2017 9:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 26, 2017 0:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 30, 2017 19:00:32 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 31, 2017 14:51:21 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 8, 2018 12:37:54 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 16, 2018 10:59:08 GMT -5
Finlay cover.
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Post by deuce on Jan 20, 2018 2:03:33 GMT -5
Great Walter Baumhofer cover.
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Post by deuce on Jan 20, 2018 16:35:05 GMT -5
October, 1952...
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2018 12:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 25, 2018 11:47:28 GMT -5
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