Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994)
Autore di I segugi di Tindalos
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Frank Belknap Long in New York, 1990, photographed by Leigh Blackmore
Serie
Opere di Frank Belknap Long
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (UNCLE) Magazine January 1967 "The Light-Kill Affair" Robert A. Heinlein Story (1966) 5 copie
Das Grauen aus den Bergen: Geschichten aus dem Cthulhu-Mythos (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens) (2013) 5 copie
THE Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine. Vol.2, No.4. (November 1966) - The Thrush Fro Thrush Affair (1966) 4 copie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, Vol. 2 No. 3, (October 1966) - The Moby Dick Affair (1966) 3 copie
The goblin tower 3 copie
Lake Of Fire 2 copie
Mythos and Horror Stories 2 copie
E bello essere marziani 2 copie
The Unfinished 2 copie
Wobblies In The Moon 2 copie
Green Glory 2 copie
Cottage Tenant 2 copie
The Timeless Ones 2 copie
The Weeping Stars: A Frank Belknap Long Collection (Five Frank Long science fiction stories in one volume!) (2010) 2 copie
The Man From U. N. C.L. E. Magazine, Vol.1, no.3, (April 1966) - The Unspeakable Affair (1966) 2 copie
Dark Awakening 2 copie
The Last Men [short story] 2 copie
The Spiral Intelligence 2 copie
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine - The Cat and Mouse Affair (Volume 2, No. 1) August 1966 (1966) 1 copia
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E Magazine Vol.2 No.1 (December 1967) - The Sinister Satellite Affair (1967) 1 copia
Man From U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, Vol.4 No.5 (December 1967) - The Pillars of Salt Affair (1967) 1 copia
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (UNCLE) Magazine July 1967 "The Electronic Frankenstein Affair" (1967) 1 copia
The Beauty and Beast Affair 1 copia
The Cat and Mouse Affair 1 copia
Two Face 1 copia
A Visitor From Egypt 1 copia
De fremmede 1 copia
Collector's Item 1 copia
Invaders From The Outer Suns 1 copia
The Creeper In Darkness 1 copia
Brown 1 copia
Throwback In Time 1 copia
The Robot Empire 1 copia
Temporary Warp 1 copia
Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall 1 copia
The Martian visitors 1 copia
The Light-Kill Affair 1 copia
The Hungry World Affair 1 copia
The Goliath Affair 1 copia
The World's End Affair 1 copia
The Dolls of Death Affair 1 copia
The Unspeakable Affair 1 copia
The man with a thousand legs 1 copia
Fire of the Witches 1 copia
The Mating Center 1 copia
Time Trap 1 copia
LOS SABUESOS DE TINDALOS 1 copia
The Black Druid [short fiction] 1 copia
The Science Fiction Bundle 1 copia
Atomic Station 1 copia
The Vibration Wasps 1 copia
Opere correlate
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others (2011) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All (2014) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (2021) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of GHOST STORIES Magazine (2000) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 12 copie
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Satellite Science Fiction April 1957 — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fantastic Universe October 1954 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Weird Tales Volume 19 Number 2, February 1932 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Northern, Leslie
Davis, Robert Hart
Long, Lyda Belknap - Data di nascita
- 1901-04-27
- Data di morte
- 1994-01-03
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York City, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- writer
- Organizzazioni
- United Amateur Press Association
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Bram Stoker Award (1987)
World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1978)
First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977)
Utenti
Discussioni
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Recensioni
This is sort of a rambling mess of a reminiscence as opposed to a real biography. Not very well written and could have used a good editing to pull it together. Reads like a first draft of something. I'm not a big Long fan anyway so I didn't have high hopes.
I would only recommend this to Arkham House collectors and I would put it in my collection and never look at it again.
I would only recommend this to Arkham House collectors and I would put it in my collection and never look at it again.
I have read a coupled of other stories by Long but this one was impossible to finish. The prose were strange and the dialog was unnatural. Did not finish it.
review of
Robert Hart Davis's Charlie Chan in Walk Softly, Strangler
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - August 2, 2019
I read this back-to-back w/ Michael Avallone's Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen wch I reviewed beginning thusly:
"I enjoyed watching Charlie Chan movies on TV in the 1960s when I was young & still living w/ my parents. In 2014, remembering the pleasure I got from these movies but retroactively suspicious of them as symptoms of the racism of their times, I decided to revist them & analyze them. The result was this movie I made:
"402. "CHAN(geling)"
- a media analysis of yellowface in Warner Oland movies by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- made from January to February, 2014
- edit finished on February 21, 2014
- 30:05
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/XMP8mU1OfSY" - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2921171508
I also mentioned there that "In the meantime, I've also been reading Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan — The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History (2010), wch I'll review eventually, a scholarly look at the Chan character & his greater social context. Huang's bk goes into much greater detail than I did in my "CHAN(geling)" & is a much more valuable resource than anything I'm likely to add in my Charlie Chan reviews." (ibid)
This story was originally published in the Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine (November, 1973) & even w/ somewhat large print it only gets stretched to 123 pp here.
"The collection, as both women knew, was insured for more than a million dollars and this was a mere token estimate of its actual cash value"
[..]
"Now all the originals were gone . . ." - p 4
Yeah, you know, something valuable gets stolen, people get killed, that sort of thing.
Critics of the Charlie Chan character tend to dislike his chop-chop aphorisms as demeaningly stereotypical of Chinese people. Many appearances of Chan in movies & in written stories play w/ this issue. This bk provides many excellent examples:
"Chan said, "Mouth feel like boxing glove but unable to hit back at tormenter."
"Dr. Svorenssen flicked the tip of his bulbous nose with a thumbnail, said, "Come on Charlie. You speak better English than I do. Save the Confucius Say bit for your admiring public."
[..]
""Not speak good English with face full of Novocain. Tongue fill mouth to point of detonation."" - p 6
"None," said his friend. "She called earlier to ask me to bring you. Mei T'ang have problem—damn you, you've got me talking your pidgin!"
"Chan masked a smile of amusement, said, "Wise man watch self near poison oak or catch same." A pause, then, "Eric, you know I'm not in Hollywood for business, apart from the damnable business of my bridgework."" - p 9
"Chan looked accusingly at Dr. Svorenssen, said, "You not tell Charlie movie involved."
""So solly, Cholly," said Svorenssen. "Not lemember evelything."
""Oh, shut up. Eric," said Roberts, "Not funny."" - p 36
""In Kingdom of Heaven," said Chan, "cooperation, not competition, law of land."
"Back in the antique dealer's big car, Hei Wei said, "Why the fortune cookie motto. Charlie?"
""People expect it of me," said Chan. "Cannot leave laughing, leave smiling." He gave Hei Wei a broad smile.
""Pardon me while I retch," said Hei Wei" - p 93
Now, now, retching is a bit of an over-reaction isn't it?
"Then Doctor Svorenssen said, "You remember Mei T'ang Wu, Charlie?"
""Hearts of Palm favorite film for many years. Much in love with her," said Chan. "Is she dead?"
""She's very much alive," said Svorenssen. "I've been taking care of her teeth for almost thirty years. She's still the most beautiful Oriental woman I have ever seen."
""Chinese flower slow to fade," said Chan, a reminiscent glow lending warmth to his usually inscrutable dark eyes," - p 8
I've heard that when Hearts of Palm are retched on they fade quicker than usual.. but that might be an urban legend. "and on exotic Mei T'ang Wu's House of Wu" (p 10) Yeah, that too. I forgot about that.
"He had seen her in at least a score of her filmed epics, from the early, and silent, Kowloon Nights to her final appearance as Mother Goddan in a technicolor revival of John Colton's Shanghai Gesture." - p 11
Sometimes, the brilliance of Chan's detecting seems rather dull such as when he was attacked by someone who obviously then left thru a door that he cd've easily followed them thru:
"When Chan got the cloth, a large lavender bath towel, from his head, he was sitting on the carpet, facing the door through which he had just peered. It was again closed" - p 30
"The other side to the bathroom was abruptly opened, bringing with it a ground swell of conversation from the conservatory." - p 32
So why didn't Chan immediately ask people by the door if they'd seen anyone just come from there?
Sheesh.
"At the time her mother and I were lovers, we were both big stars—and in those days the Breen office rode hard herd on Hollywood where scandal was concerned. Remember what happened to Ingrid Bergman?"" - p 77
"In the 1940s, Ingrid Bergman was one of the most revered actresses in Hollywood. With deep longing, America believed in the saint-like luminescence that the Swedish star brought to such iconic roles as vulnerable Ilsa in Casablanca and the wife losing her mind to her sadistic husband in Alfred Hitchcock’s Gaslight, for which she won an Oscar.
"So when the married Bergman had an affair with a womanizing Italian director and bore him a child out of wedlock, America was scandalized. The affair was so vilified that a U.S. senator took to the Senate floor in 1950 to denounce the star as a “powerful influence for evil.”
"Behind Bergman’s pristine façade, she was ambitious, driven, and willful. She smoked, drank, and had affairs—as did many of her male co-stars, but women were held to different standards." - https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/07/ingrid-bergman/
SQWONK! Gaslight was NOT a Hitchcock movie, it was directed by George Cukor.
Charlie Chan's affair w/ Ingrid Bergman was the nail in both their careers. The problem wasn't his being a Chinese-Hawaiian, it was his being a fictional character.… (altro)
Robert Hart Davis's Charlie Chan in Walk Softly, Strangler
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - August 2, 2019
I read this back-to-back w/ Michael Avallone's Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen wch I reviewed beginning thusly:
"I enjoyed watching Charlie Chan movies on TV in the 1960s when I was young & still living w/ my parents. In 2014, remembering the pleasure I got from these movies but retroactively suspicious of them as symptoms of the racism of their times, I decided to revist them & analyze them. The result was this movie I made:
"402. "CHAN(geling)"
- a media analysis of yellowface in Warner Oland movies by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- made from January to February, 2014
- edit finished on February 21, 2014
- 30:05
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/XMP8mU1OfSY" - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2921171508
I also mentioned there that "In the meantime, I've also been reading Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan — The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History (2010), wch I'll review eventually, a scholarly look at the Chan character & his greater social context. Huang's bk goes into much greater detail than I did in my "CHAN(geling)" & is a much more valuable resource than anything I'm likely to add in my Charlie Chan reviews." (ibid)
This story was originally published in the Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine (November, 1973) & even w/ somewhat large print it only gets stretched to 123 pp here.
"The collection, as both women knew, was insured for more than a million dollars and this was a mere token estimate of its actual cash value"
[..]
"Now all the originals were gone . . ." - p 4
Yeah, you know, something valuable gets stolen, people get killed, that sort of thing.
Critics of the Charlie Chan character tend to dislike his chop-chop aphorisms as demeaningly stereotypical of Chinese people. Many appearances of Chan in movies & in written stories play w/ this issue. This bk provides many excellent examples:
"Chan said, "Mouth feel like boxing glove but unable to hit back at tormenter."
"Dr. Svorenssen flicked the tip of his bulbous nose with a thumbnail, said, "Come on Charlie. You speak better English than I do. Save the Confucius Say bit for your admiring public."
[..]
""Not speak good English with face full of Novocain. Tongue fill mouth to point of detonation."" - p 6
"None," said his friend. "She called earlier to ask me to bring you. Mei T'ang have problem—damn you, you've got me talking your pidgin!"
"Chan masked a smile of amusement, said, "Wise man watch self near poison oak or catch same." A pause, then, "Eric, you know I'm not in Hollywood for business, apart from the damnable business of my bridgework."" - p 9
"Chan looked accusingly at Dr. Svorenssen, said, "You not tell Charlie movie involved."
""So solly, Cholly," said Svorenssen. "Not lemember evelything."
""Oh, shut up. Eric," said Roberts, "Not funny."" - p 36
""In Kingdom of Heaven," said Chan, "cooperation, not competition, law of land."
"Back in the antique dealer's big car, Hei Wei said, "Why the fortune cookie motto. Charlie?"
""People expect it of me," said Chan. "Cannot leave laughing, leave smiling." He gave Hei Wei a broad smile.
""Pardon me while I retch," said Hei Wei" - p 93
Now, now, retching is a bit of an over-reaction isn't it?
"Then Doctor Svorenssen said, "You remember Mei T'ang Wu, Charlie?"
""Hearts of Palm favorite film for many years. Much in love with her," said Chan. "Is she dead?"
""She's very much alive," said Svorenssen. "I've been taking care of her teeth for almost thirty years. She's still the most beautiful Oriental woman I have ever seen."
""Chinese flower slow to fade," said Chan, a reminiscent glow lending warmth to his usually inscrutable dark eyes," - p 8
I've heard that when Hearts of Palm are retched on they fade quicker than usual.. but that might be an urban legend. "and on exotic Mei T'ang Wu's House of Wu" (p 10) Yeah, that too. I forgot about that.
"He had seen her in at least a score of her filmed epics, from the early, and silent, Kowloon Nights to her final appearance as Mother Goddan in a technicolor revival of John Colton's Shanghai Gesture." - p 11
Sometimes, the brilliance of Chan's detecting seems rather dull such as when he was attacked by someone who obviously then left thru a door that he cd've easily followed them thru:
"When Chan got the cloth, a large lavender bath towel, from his head, he was sitting on the carpet, facing the door through which he had just peered. It was again closed" - p 30
"The other side to the bathroom was abruptly opened, bringing with it a ground swell of conversation from the conservatory." - p 32
So why didn't Chan immediately ask people by the door if they'd seen anyone just come from there?
Sheesh.
"At the time her mother and I were lovers, we were both big stars—and in those days the Breen office rode hard herd on Hollywood where scandal was concerned. Remember what happened to Ingrid Bergman?"" - p 77
"In the 1940s, Ingrid Bergman was one of the most revered actresses in Hollywood. With deep longing, America believed in the saint-like luminescence that the Swedish star brought to such iconic roles as vulnerable Ilsa in Casablanca and the wife losing her mind to her sadistic husband in Alfred Hitchcock’s Gaslight, for which she won an Oscar.
"So when the married Bergman had an affair with a womanizing Italian director and bore him a child out of wedlock, America was scandalized. The affair was so vilified that a U.S. senator took to the Senate floor in 1950 to denounce the star as a “powerful influence for evil.”
"Behind Bergman’s pristine façade, she was ambitious, driven, and willful. She smoked, drank, and had affairs—as did many of her male co-stars, but women were held to different standards." - https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/07/ingrid-bergman/
SQWONK! Gaslight was NOT a Hitchcock movie, it was directed by George Cukor.
Charlie Chan's affair w/ Ingrid Bergman was the nail in both their careers. The problem wasn't his being a Chinese-Hawaiian, it was his being a fictional character.… (altro)
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Unusually constructed book for Arkham House: slick magazine type paper, embossed dj, and glued-in binding (ick!).