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Acolyte, v. 2, issue 4, whole no. 8, Fall 1944
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al explanations, but there's been a certain school of the detective story that often manages to overcome that dislike.Melville Davisson post, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, and Clayton Rawson have produced stories with such superlatively eery background (the automaton in Carr's The Crooked Hing is as creepy as anything in M.R. James) and such an authoritative background of black magic research that even the (usually brilliant) rational explanations don't keep them from having marked value as borderline items in a fantasy collection. Now there's a new name in that school: Hake Talbot. Any connoisseur of the impossible situation is strongly recommended to investigate his The Hangman's Handyman (Simon & Schuster, 1942) (also reprinted in Two Detective Novels magazine about a year ago. --FTL) or Rim of the Pit (Simon & Schuster, 1944). The latter, by the way, involves a windigo---the same strange thing as in the classic Blackwood story, although differently spelled." ---ooOoo--- AUGUST DERLETH DISCUSSES ARKHAM HOUSE'S LONG RANGE PLANS. I have gone over Robert E. Howard's work and selected 29 titles, including his Hyborian Age essay on the background of his stories, for printing in 1945 in an omnibus ($5), which will be one of our largest books, Repeated pleas for all the Conan stories in one volume had to be discarded; such hacking, sawing, fisticuffs, and general carnage became sickening after the sixth story, hilariously ridiculous after the ninth. The 28 stories chosen will have among them tales of Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and others. The book will be prefaced by HPL's fine appreciation of REH done for Fantasy Magazine back in 1936, as well as by a brief House introduction. The novel Skull-Face is the only Howard novel to be included. The book has not as yet been titled, but will probably be called either Wolfshead and Others or Skull-Face and Others. If the way can be cleared for it, the Hodgson omnibus will be titled The House on the Borderland and Other Novels (the others being The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land). No price has as yet been set on this one. The line-up for Arkham House in 1945, unless something unforeseen happens--like an insufficient sale of the 1944 titles--will be definitely as follows: The Hounds of Tindalos, bu Frank Belknap Long, Jr. The Opener of the Way, by Robert Bloch. Something Near, by August Derleth. Wolfshead and Others, by Robert E. Howard. Who Knocks? 20 Great Spectral Tales edited by August Derleth, published by Farrar and Rinehard (if Sleep No More is successful!) and possibly also the Hodgson omnibus, thought likelihood is that this will have to be put over until 1946, paper shortage making that mandatory. ---ooOoo--- RANDOM HOUSE TO PUBLISH A SCIENTIFICTION ANTHOLOGY It is highly gratifying to note the increased number of first-class book publishers who are dipping more and more into the pulp fantasies for their productions. Fans will be particularly delighted to learn that Random House, encouraged by the literally spectacular sales of Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, has decided to follow it with a companion volume of scientifiction. This effort will be edited by Angelences N. F. McComas and Ray Healy, and will consist very largely of former pulp material. The editors are making use of the libraries of F.T. Laney and of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in making their selection. This column hopes to present full details in the next issue. -- FTL -- 26 --
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al explanations, but there's been a certain school of the detective story that often manages to overcome that dislike.Melville Davisson post, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, and Clayton Rawson have produced stories with such superlatively eery background (the automaton in Carr's The Crooked Hing is as creepy as anything in M.R. James) and such an authoritative background of black magic research that even the (usually brilliant) rational explanations don't keep them from having marked value as borderline items in a fantasy collection. Now there's a new name in that school: Hake Talbot. Any connoisseur of the impossible situation is strongly recommended to investigate his The Hangman's Handyman (Simon & Schuster, 1942) (also reprinted in Two Detective Novels magazine about a year ago. --FTL) or Rim of the Pit (Simon & Schuster, 1944). The latter, by the way, involves a windigo---the same strange thing as in the classic Blackwood story, although differently spelled." ---ooOoo--- AUGUST DERLETH DISCUSSES ARKHAM HOUSE'S LONG RANGE PLANS. I have gone over Robert E. Howard's work and selected 29 titles, including his Hyborian Age essay on the background of his stories, for printing in 1945 in an omnibus ($5), which will be one of our largest books, Repeated pleas for all the Conan stories in one volume had to be discarded; such hacking, sawing, fisticuffs, and general carnage became sickening after the sixth story, hilariously ridiculous after the ninth. The 28 stories chosen will have among them tales of Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and others. The book will be prefaced by HPL's fine appreciation of REH done for Fantasy Magazine back in 1936, as well as by a brief House introduction. The novel Skull-Face is the only Howard novel to be included. The book has not as yet been titled, but will probably be called either Wolfshead and Others or Skull-Face and Others. If the way can be cleared for it, the Hodgson omnibus will be titled The House on the Borderland and Other Novels (the others being The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land). No price has as yet been set on this one. The line-up for Arkham House in 1945, unless something unforeseen happens--like an insufficient sale of the 1944 titles--will be definitely as follows: The Hounds of Tindalos, bu Frank Belknap Long, Jr. The Opener of the Way, by Robert Bloch. Something Near, by August Derleth. Wolfshead and Others, by Robert E. Howard. Who Knocks? 20 Great Spectral Tales edited by August Derleth, published by Farrar and Rinehard (if Sleep No More is successful!) and possibly also the Hodgson omnibus, thought likelihood is that this will have to be put over until 1946, paper shortage making that mandatory. ---ooOoo--- RANDOM HOUSE TO PUBLISH A SCIENTIFICTION ANTHOLOGY It is highly gratifying to note the increased number of first-class book publishers who are dipping more and more into the pulp fantasies for their productions. Fans will be particularly delighted to learn that Random House, encouraged by the literally spectacular sales of Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, has decided to follow it with a companion volume of scientifiction. This effort will be edited by Angelences N. F. McComas and Ray Healy, and will consist very largely of former pulp material. The editors are making use of the libraries of F.T. Laney and of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in making their selection. This column hopes to present full details in the next issue. -- FTL -- 26 --
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