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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Not HPL but cool Utpatel Illo.

OK, OK, this has nothing to do with Lovecraft, but it's a cool image from a great artist. Also a chance to get a little Derleth, Bloch, and van Vogt in the blog. :)
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THE PONTINE DOSSIER - Annual Edition,Vol. 1, No. 1971 // "The Pontine Dossier" was a booklet for those interested in Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, Fu Manchu, Nayland Smith and all detectives of the nineteenth century. It attracted the likes of Robert Bloch (here represented with a poem "Crumbs For A Toast For Solar Pons"), and A. E. Van Vogt ("Secret Deductive Systems" (Of Holmes & Pons)). Also includes excellent poetic tips-of-the-hat to "Fu Manchu" , and "Jack the Ripper" by Edward Lauterbach.Handsomely printed with stiff-paper covers featuring a terrific Frank Utpatel illustration of a deer-stalkered detective

4 comments:

  1. I actually picked up a CD-R of every issue from the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box a few years ago:


    At $10+shipping, it was well worth it.

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  2. Sorry, evidently it doesn't like HTML.

    http://www.batteredbox.com/AugustDerlethMycroft/The%20Praed%20Street%20Irregulars.htm

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  3. Mark, thanks for reading and for the link.

    Yeah, blogger won't allow html in comments.

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  4. By the way, here are some more Utpatel images from my Photobucket collection ...

    http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ChrisPerridas/August%20Derleth/1112.jpg

    http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ChrisPerridas/August%20Derleth/1113.jpg

    http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ChrisPerridas/August%20Derleth/1114.jpg

    and a few Deleth images ...

    http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/ChrisPerridas/?action=tags&current=August%20Derleth

    or search Derleth at my antiquarian weird tales blog

    http://antiquarianweirdtale.blogspot.com/

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