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Post by Jason Aiken on Dec 21, 2016 3:30:18 GMT -5
Heh, thanks for posting that early Pulp Crazy episode, Deuce. Pardon my old, shit microphone
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Post by deuce on Dec 25, 2016 10:36:05 GMT -5
Seabury Quinn was Weird Tales' most popular author. It can be argued that a lot of what he wrote was hackwork, but he could do quality in a pinch. One example is his novella, Roads, which saw print in the January 1938 Weird Tales (which actually went on sale in December 1937). I had low expectations when I read it, but I have to say this is one of the better Christmas stories I've read. It is definitely the best "Sword & Sorcery Christmas" tale I've ever read. Quinn seems to be channeling/paying homage to REH, who had been dead little over a year It's considered a minor classic amongst WT aficionados and was the first illustrated book Arkham House ever published. If you can find it, check it out this Yuletide season. www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?65371Our own Jason Aiken gives it the "Pulp Crazy" treatment here: Our own Morgan "docpod" Holmes gives props to Roads. Warning: SPOILERS. www.castaliahouse.com/roads/
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Post by johnnypt on Dec 25, 2016 12:54:35 GMT -5
Seabury Quinn was Weird Tales' most popular author. It can be argued that a lot of what he wrote was hackwork, but he could do quality in a pinch. One example is his novella, Roads, which saw print in the January 1938 Weird Tales (which actually went on sale in December 1937). I had low expectations when I read it, but I have to say this is one of the better Christmas stories I've read. It is definitely the best "Sword & Sorcery Christmas" tale I've ever read. Quinn seems to be channeling/paying homage to REH, who had been dead little over a year It's considered a minor classic amongst WT aficionados and was the first illustrated book Arkham House ever published. If you can find it, check it out this Yuletide season. www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?65371Our own Jason Aiken gives it the "Pulp Crazy" treatment here: Our own Morgan "docpod" Holmes gives props to Roads. Warning: SPOILERS. www.castaliahouse.com/roads/It's interesting in recent years people as diverse as Glenn Beck and Grant Morrison have done similar type Santa origin tales, yet I haven't seen Roads come up as an early version of the "Santa from biblical times" story
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Post by deuce on Jan 9, 2017 10:47:00 GMT -5
jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2017/01/sunday-morning-bonus-pulp-weird-tales.html?spref=fb2 • Weird Tales (masthead) • [Weird Tales Decorations] • (1940) • interior artwork by Dwight Boyce (variant of Weird Tales, June 1936 1936) 4 • The Artificial Honeymoon • [An Adventure of a Professional Corpse • 1] • shortstory by H. Bedford-Jones 5 • The Artificial Honeymoon • interior artwork by Henry del Campo 15 • Golden Chalice • shortstory by Frank Gruber 15 • Golden Chalice • interior artwork by Henry del Campo 23 • The Fiddler's Fee • shortstory by Robert Bloch 23 • The Fiddler's Fee • interior artwork by Henry del Campo 36 • The Dreadful Rabbits • [Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman [as by Gans T. Field ] 36 • The Dreadful Rabbits • interior artwork by Hannes Bok 44 • A Million Years in the Future (Part 4 of 4) • serial by Thomas P. Kelley 44 • A Million Years in the Future (Part 4 of 4) • interior artwork by Hannes Bok 70 • On Pell Street • shortstory by Frank Owen 70 • On Pell Street • interior artwork by Hannes Bok 75 • Ears of the Dead • poem by James Arthur 76 • The Gentle Werewolf • novelette by Seabury Quinn 76 • The Gentle Werewolf • interior artwork by Henry del Campo 96 • The Crystal Horde • novelette by Harry Walton 96 • The Crystal Horde • interior artwork by Harry Ferman 111 • Inheritance • poem by Sudie Stuart Hager 112 • Beyond the Frame • shortstory by Maria Moravsky 112 • Beyond the Frame • interior artwork by Hannes Bok 119 • Weird Tales, July 1940 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited 120 • Three Flowers • [It Happened to Me] • essay by F. T. Compton 121 • The Cast-away Slave • [It Happened to Me] • essay by Thomas Trafton 122 • Rabbit's Intuition • [It Happened to Me] • essay by Jim Price 123 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, July 1940) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 123 • The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 126 • Weird Tales Club (Weird Tales, July 1940) • essay by uncredited 128 • Looking at the Next Issue of Weird Tales • essay by uncredited
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Post by deuce on Jan 10, 2017 17:52:06 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 8, 2017 8:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 22, 2017 14:49:57 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2017 9:44:26 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 9, 2017 13:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by arcadian on Apr 26, 2017 21:30:46 GMT -5
I couldn't find this mentioned anywhere: Nightshade is reprinting Seabury Quinn's Jules De Grandin stories in five volumes in chronological order. Here's the plug from Black Gate:
"Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.
Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries — and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!) — captivated readers for nearly three decades. Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.
The first volume, The Horror on the Links, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Horror on the Links” (1925) to “The Chapel of Mystic Horror” (1928), as well as an introduction by Robert Weinberg."
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Post by deuce on May 8, 2017 8:52:17 GMT -5
Just like to say that -- thanks to a good friend -- I now own an issue from the original run of WT. Besides other cool stuff, it contains the first publication of Clark Ashton Smith's "An Offering to the Moon" which sports a Virgil Finlay illo. Thanks, Robert! www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62155
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Post by ChrisLAdams on May 8, 2017 9:25:49 GMT -5
Just like to say that -- thanks to a good friend -- I now own an issue from the original run of WT. Besides other cool stuff, it contains the first publication of Clark Ashton Smith's "An Offering to the Moon" which sports a Virgil Finlay illo. Thanks, Robert! www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62155Frak yeah! Congrats! Hope to own a copy of WT one day.
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