Lovecraft in book form Arkham later published the first books of such writers as Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and A. He edited numerous volumes of short stories and poetry, and he founded and operated Arkham House, a publishing company originally devoted to preserving the work of H. Among his more than 150 books are contemporary novels, historical novels (both for adults and for young readers), regional history, biographies, mystery fiction, true-crime essays, pastiches, weird and supernatural fiction, children’s books, personal journals, compilations of nature observations, and poetry. In a writing career that lasted from his teens until his death at the age of sixty-two, he worked in a wide variety of genres and styles. Reprinted as Regarding Sherlock Holmes #1 – The Adventures of Solar Pons (Pinnacle, paperback, 1974).Īugust Derleth was a literary phenomenon. This pilot seems to have exhausted most of the possibilities, all in itself.ĪUGUST DERLETH – In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons. If it had been picked up as a series, one has to wonder how long it would have lasted before running out of stories to tell. Mostly an entertaining but essentially inconsequential enterprise, in spite of an excellent cast and high production values. It’s a jaunty, more than semi-humorous effort, with blaring music, a backfiring contemporaneous automobile, and featuring the beauteous Karen Steele as the lady gambler.Ī highlight of the episode occurs when the three guys barge in on the lady and start to strip down to take a well-needed bath but not noticing that she is already in the tub. Set in WWI-era Texas, three friends work as oil well diggers on spec (that is to say, wildcatters), but their latest venture seems to have gone bust, not because there’s no oil, but the owner of the venture has lost the rights to it to a lady gambler, who has given them only one more day before closing it down.Īlso in opposition to the project is a local cattle rancher who fears that oil, if found, will poison the only watering hole on his land.Īnd that’s about there can be said about the story line itself. Currently available on You Tube (see below). Created, written & produced by Burt Kennedy. Jones (as Justice McQueen), Karen Steele, Don Wilson (yes, that Don Wilson), Denver Pyle. “Kelly from Dallas.” Unaired pilot, 30 min. All the collectors who have paid a steep premium for that particular issue of DFW must be well displeased. Will Murray’s account there seems definitive to me. You can read all about it in this post on the Blackgate blog. It has taken a long time, but pulp historian Will Murray has discovered another huge flaw in the assumption that Hammett actually wrote the story that is to say, that there was a fairly well known journalist at the same time the story appeared whose name was, guess what, Samuel Dashiell. This in spite of the fact that this was the only story that Hammett would have ever had published in DFW, and even though it read nothing like anything the creator of hard-boiled detective fiction ever wrote under his own name. For as long as I remember, which is about as far back as when I first started collecting pulp magazines, the story “The Diamond Wager,” by Samuel Dashiell, which appeared in the Octoissue of Detective Fiction Weekly, has been assumed to have been written by one (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett.
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