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Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994)

Author of The Hounds of Tindalos

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Image credit: Frank Belknap Long in New York, 1990, photographed by Leigh Blackmore

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Works by Frank Belknap Long

The Hounds of Tindalos (1946) 200 copies
Survival World (1971) 113 copies
The Rim of the Unknown (1972) 66 copies
Lest Earth Be Conquered (1968) 62 copies
Mars is My Destination (1962) — Author — 52 copies
It Was the Day of the Robot (1963) 43 copies
Night Fear (1979) 40 copies
Odd Science Fiction (1964) 40 copies
Space Station #1 (1957) 39 copies
The Horror from the Hills (1931) 39 copies
In Mayan Splendor (1977) 38 copies
Journey into Darkness (1967) 37 copies
Monster From Out of Time (1970) 34 copies
This Strange Tomorrow (1966) 28 copies
The Thief of Thoth / ...and Others Shall be Born (1968) — Contributor — 27 copies
Adventures Into The Unknown! Archives, Volume 1 (2012) — Author — 21 copies
The Three Faces of Time (1969) 17 copies
The Witch Tree (1971) 16 copies
The Night of the Wolf (1972) 15 copies
The Calm Man (1954) 15 copies
To the Dark Tower (1969) 11 copies
Frank Belknap Long (2011) 11 copies
The Man the Martians Made (1954) 10 copies
The Man From Time (1954) 10 copies
The Mississippi Saucer (1951) 9 copies
The Sky Trap (1941) 7 copies
So Dark a Heritage (1966) 7 copies
The Horror Expert (1961) 6 copies
Crucible of Evil (1974) 6 copies
Autobiographical Memoir (1986) 5 copies
Legacy of Evil (1973) 4 copies
Woman From Another Planet (1960) 4 copies
The Space Eaters (1928) — Author — 3 copies
Le Gnome Rouge (1975) 3 copies
Dark Awakening 2 copies
Green Glory 2 copies
Cottage Tenant 2 copies
The Unfinished 2 copies
Three Steps Spaceward (1963) 2 copies
Lake Of Fire 2 copies
Two Face 1 copy
De fremmede 1 copy
The Lemoyne Heritage (1977) 1 copy
Brown 1 copy
The Shape of Fear (1971) 1 copy
The Mercurian (1941) 1 copy
Fire of the Witches (1971) 1 copy
Time Trap 1 copy

Associated Works

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1989) — Contributor — 987 copies
The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Contributor — 529 copies
Weird Tales (1988) — Contributor — 271 copies
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol. 1 (1971) — Author — 253 copies
New tales of the Cthulhu mythos (1980) — Author — 214 copies
Science Fiction of the Thirties (1975) — Contributor — 204 copies
The Shunned House (1937) — Preface, some editions — 186 copies
Nameless Cults (2001) — Contributor — 178 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories for Late at Night (1962) — Contributor — 163 copies
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors (1988) — Contributor — 143 copies
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1969) — Author — 138 copies
Chilling Horror Short Stories (2016) — Contributor — 136 copies
The Necronomicon (1901) — Contributor — 125 copies
The Spawn Of Cthulhu (1971) — Contributor — 124 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributor — 111 copies
The Necronomicon (Chaosium ∙ 2nd Edition ∙ 2008) (2002) — Contributor — 100 copies
The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture (1886) — Contributor — 100 copies
Space Odysseys (1974) 98 copies
Strange gifts: Eight stories of science fiction (1975) — Author — 91 copies
Unknown Worlds : Tales from Beyond (1988) — Contributor — 90 copies
Flying Saucers (1982) — Contributor — 89 copies
The Other Side of the Moon (1949) 80 copies
Légendes du mythe de Cthulhu : L'Appel de Cthulhu (1928) — Contributor — 79 copies
Between Time and Terror (1995) — Contributor — 76 copies
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963) — Contributor — 67 copies
Young Extraterrestrials (1984) — Contributor — 64 copies
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contributor — 63 copies
Worlds of Weird (1965) — Author — 62 copies
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories (1996) — Contributor — 59 copies
The Second Science Fiction Megapack (2011) — Author — 53 copies
Ten Tales Calculated to Give You Shudders (1972) — Contributor — 48 copies
Halloween Horrors (1984) — Contributor — 48 copies
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contributor — 46 copies
Far Boundaries (1951) — Contributor — 46 copies
The Challenge From Beyond (1985) — Contributor — 45 copies
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Contributor — 44 copies
Sentinels of Space / The Ultimate Invader (1954) — Contributor — 41 copies
Horrors unknown (1971) — Contributor — 41 copies
Whispers III (1981) — Contributor — 38 copies
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Horror Novels (1987) — Contributor — 33 copies
Over the Edge (1964) — Contributor — 32 copies
Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep (1994) — Contributor — 31 copies
The Complete Masters of Darkness (1991) — Contributor — 31 copies
The Tindalos Cycle (2009) — Contributor — 29 copies
Strange Ecstasies (1973) — Contributor — 27 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 26 copies
Weird Tales, No. 4 (1983) — Contributor — 25 copies
Weird Tales, No. 2 (1980) — Contributor — 24 copies
Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986) — Author — 23 copies
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1951 (1951) — Contributor — 21 copies
Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 21 copies
Alone By Night ( Tales of Unlimited Horror ) (1961) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Girl With The Hungry Eyes (1949) — Contributor — 18 copies
Légendes du mythe de Cthulhu : Le livre noir (1991) — Contributor — 18 copies
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Second Book of Unknown Tales of Horror (1826) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Mummy Walks Among Us (1971) 14 copies
De Cthulhu-mythologie : lovecraftiaanse verhalen (1974) — Contributor — 13 copies
Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of GHOST STORIES Magazine (2000) — Author, some editions — 12 copies
New Worlds For Old (1963) — Contributor — 11 copies
Lovecraftin lähteillä (1887) 10 copies
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Contributor, some editions — 9 copies
Univers 01 (1975) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Occult Lovecraft (1975) — Contributor — 7 copies
Astounding Stories 1937 08 (1937) — Contributor — 7 copies
Satellite Science Fiction February 1958 (1958) — Contributor — 7 copies
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 07 (1971) — Contributor — 5 copies
Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies
Avon Fantasy Reader No. 13 (1950) — Contributor — 5 copies
Satellite Science Fiction April 1957 — Contributor — 4 copies
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Contributor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Contributor — 3 copies
The Ultimate Invader and Other Science-Fiction (1954) — Contributor — 3 copies
Worlds of Tomorrow (Berkley Books G-163) (1958) — Contributor — 3 copies
Return to Derleth: Selected Essays V. 2 (1995) — Contributor — 3 copies
Fantastic Universe October 1954 — Contributor — 2 copies
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine | January 1982 (1982) — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 19 Number 2, February 1932 — Contributor — 2 copies
Adventure Tales #7: Classic Tales from the Pulps (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies
Kvinden der ikke kunne dø — Author, some editions — 1 copy

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Pretty good stuff. I've never been that impressed by Long's fiction so this was surprise. Mostly macabre subject matter, but a nice variety of other inspirations thrown in as well. Just the right amount of wordiness to drive metaphor. Extra points for real meter and rhyme. Nice interior and dj illustrations by Stephen Fabian.

Unusually constructed book for Arkham House: slick magazine type paper, embossed dj, and glued-in binding (ick!).
 
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
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.
 
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
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.
 
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ikeman100 | May 24, 2022 |
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.
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