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Post by dem bones on Aug 26, 2022 17:30:23 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 27, 2022 12:50:53 GMT
Thanks, Dem. Point taken. I think I was naively posting links to relevant reviews for future readers of specific threads, not as news items.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 4, 2022 19:26:31 GMT
Michael, that fanzine is fascinating. The cover art is first rate--I'm impressed that something of this calibre was printed in a fan pub back in the 1940s. I'm just slowly looking through the pages and was bemused at the outrage of some book dealer charging $100 for the then recently OP Arkham The Outsider. It's quite comprehensible however that back then, nobody expected HPL to become an author who would ever attract the interest of "the mundane first edition buying public." I recall circa 1983 seeing a copy of that book on display behind a counter in a Hollywood (California) used bookshop. I believe the price tag was around $1500. Of course today I imagine that would be deemed a bargain. I think I will hold off reading the Wakefield article until I've finished reading Malden's tales since you say the piece is so spoiler-laden. Perhaps more of Malden's work will show up in an attic someday. He's so obscure however that it's problematic whether anyone who finds it would even know what they're looking at. cheers, Hel Helen Grant (editor of the next Ghosts & Scholars) is interested in my comments on the article by Harold Wakefield. He's so obscure that ISFDB lists only articles by him for The Acoylte, for which his piece on Malden was the last. Wakefield is probably dead. I'll make inquiries. Helen Grant has accepted my article about R.H. Malden's American reviewers for Ghosts & Scholars # 43, which should be going to the printers soon.
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