tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post5119721082551690700..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: A Life of Crime: Kenneth Taylor Perkins (1890-1951)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-32208394081946780922014-03-06T12:23:26.138-08:002014-03-06T12:23:26.138-08:00Looks like zombies are quite sexy in academia thes...Looks like zombies are quite sexy in academia these days:<br /><br />http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579361451951384512The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-66755240761567909322014-03-06T12:04:30.674-08:002014-03-06T12:04:30.674-08:00So the Caribbees stories preceded The Magic Island...So the Caribbees stories preceded The Magic Island, interesting. Stribling wrote Fletcher a letter in 1922 saying he had seen Fletcher's books in Puerto Rico and Venezuela, so he obviously was in the Caribbean picking up local color.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-41277808892845188022014-03-06T11:42:59.468-08:002014-03-06T11:42:59.468-08:00I'd love to read that whole Arthur Ruhl review...I'd love to read that whole Arthur Ruhl review, sounds a scream.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-71379623434143698102014-03-06T09:28:58.466-08:002014-03-06T09:28:58.466-08:00All of the novellas in COTC were first published i...All of the novellas in COTC were first published in <i>Adventure</i> between Oct. 1925 and Feb. 1926.<br /><br />Thanks for the link to the Footner book. TomCat reviewed Theodore Roscoe's voodoo/zombie book <a href="http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2012/01/culte-des-mortes.html" rel="nofollow">MURDER ON THE WAY! (aka A GRAVE MUST BE DEEP).</a> Lots of voodoo in that one. And genuine (i.e. non-Romero-ized) zombies.<br /><br />I've only read two of the "Esteven" books and I liked THE DOOR OF DEATH better. It was at least creepy (all those torture artifacts!) and had a smidgen of a detective plot. The only thing I really remember about VOODOO was that it was a chore to read. I thought much of it boring.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-56186165584435036652014-03-06T06:22:23.551-08:002014-03-06T06:22:23.551-08:00Gay people attend Broadway theatre productions? S...Gay people attend Broadway theatre productions? Sounds like Nancy Drew had a rival!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-60434938361850559742014-03-05T21:19:56.397-08:002014-03-05T21:19:56.397-08:00Oh, and one other thing, about the Esteven book. ...Oh, and one other thing, about the Esteven book. Interesting you didn't like it either. Most of his books are available now on Kindle and I was wondering about reading him. A lot of his stuff involves the (pseudo?) supernatural stuff I know you like. I'm sure you know he was Samuel Shellabarger, a highly educated academic and historical novelist who wrote Prince of Foxes and Captain from Castile, both adapted into Tyrone Power films in the 1940s.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-54860430202289356252014-03-05T20:56:45.956-08:002014-03-05T20:56:45.956-08:00Oh, by the way,see you reviewed Footner's Obea...Oh, by the way,see you reviewed Footner's Obeah Murders, adding a link.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-17771209519606719982014-03-05T20:54:28.403-08:002014-03-05T20:54:28.403-08:00John, that's a great point about Caribbees, th...John, that's a great point about Caribbees, though I was just thinking about novels when I wrote that. The book came out at the end of 1929 and Magic Island came at the beginning of 1929. Is that cause and effect again, or were these early Stribling stories previously published? I was in communication with his biographer last year (it turns out Stribling was great pals with J. S. Fletcher and his wife, oddly enough). Also have the Crippen & Landru volume somewhere!<br /><br />This Perkins books has an odd structure. It starts off with glands, then kind of shifts into voodoo. Will it all tie together? But it is better written than I was expecting. The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-25664107559438926622014-03-05T17:33:09.099-08:002014-03-05T17:33:09.099-08:00CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES (1929) by T. S. Stribling, ...CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES (1929) by T. S. Stribling, the debut of Professor Poggioli, pre-dates those novels you mentioned. But are you discounting it because it's a collection of novellas? Oh well... In any case, it features genuine voodoo and is even set in Haiti.<br /><br />Like Jacques and Wendell I disliked VOODOO by John Esteven. Intensely disliked it, as a matter of fact. I read the Perkins book a long time ago and I can't find any notes on it but I remember the business with the gland transplants reminded me of the kind of thing you'd find in <i>Weird Tales</i> during the late 1920s. I sold the book right after reading it so I can't even check up on anything now.<br /><br />Nice and lurid DJ on THE MOCASSIN MURDERS. Never heard of it or seen a copy of it in or out of jacket, but I'd sure like to read it based on the illustration alone. Right up my alley!J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-3385214237391641632014-03-05T12:45:44.004-08:002014-03-05T12:45:44.004-08:00Added a little more detailing Perkins' connect...Added a little more detailing Perkins' connection to Reginald Pole. He met some interesting people!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.com