{"id":33284,"date":"2019-11-07T05:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=33284"},"modified":"2019-11-07T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:31:43","slug":"wandreis-ivy-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/wandreis-ivy-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandrei’s Ivy Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haffner Press is to publish The Complete Ivy Frost<\/a><\/em> by Lovecraft correspondent and one-time protege Donald Wandrei. A $50 hardcover with 700 pages of mystery-science-detective stories…<\/p>\n

Rather than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated style of many of his contemporaries, [Wandrei’s] strategy was to mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s Sherlock Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent\u2019s Doc Savage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d never heard of Ivy Frost before, but I like the sound of him. These gun-blazing mystery-science stories all appeared in Clues Detective Stories<\/em> magazine from 1934-37 (not on Archive.org), so one assumes that Lovecraft was aware of them. One wonders how may ‘little nods to Lovecraft’ Wandrei might have snuck into the stories.<\/p>\n

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Let’s hope for a Kindle ebook version in due course. In the meantime there’s also I.V. Frost: Tales of Mystery & Scientific Investigation<\/a><\/em> which is a 270-page collection of pastiche stories by later writers, available as a budget Kindle ebook as well as a paperback from Moonstone.<\/p>\n

In other news on Wandrei, S.T. Joshi’s blog<\/a> has updated and he notes that the Lovecraft letters book…<\/p>\n

Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja is soon to appear from Hippocampus Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haffner Press is to publish The Complete Ivy Frost by Lovecraft correspondent and one-time protege Donald Wandrei. A $50 hardcover …<\/p>\n

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