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Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994)

Auteur de The Hounds of Tindalos

157+ oeuvres 1,524 utilisateurs 21 critiques 4 Favoris
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Crédit image: Frank Belknap Long in New York, 1990, photographed by Leigh Blackmore

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Œuvres de Frank Belknap Long

The Hounds of Tindalos (1946) 199 exemplaires
Survival World (1971) 113 exemplaires
The Rim of the Unknown (1972) 67 exemplaires
Lest Earth Be Conquered (1968) 63 exemplaires
Mars is My Destination (1962) — Auteur — 54 exemplaires
It Was the Day of the Robot (1963) 43 exemplaires
Space Station #1 & Empire of the Atom (Ace Double D-242) (1956) — Auteur — 41 exemplaires
Odd Science Fiction (1964) 40 exemplaires
The Horror from the Hills (1931) 40 exemplaires
Space Station #1 (1957) 39 exemplaires
Night Fear (1979) 39 exemplaires
In Mayan Splendor (1977) 38 exemplaires
Journey into Darkness (1967) 38 exemplaires
Monster From Out of Time (1970) 34 exemplaires
Le Druide noir (1975) 31 exemplaires
This Strange Tomorrow (1966) 28 exemplaires
The Thief of Thoth / ...and Others Shall be Born (1968) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Adventures Into The Unknown! Archives, Volume 1 (2012) — Auteur — 21 exemplaires
The Three Faces of Time (1969) 18 exemplaires
Les chiens de Tindalos (1929) 17 exemplaires
The Witch Tree (1971) 16 exemplaires
The Night of the Wolf (1972) 15 exemplaires
The Calm Man (1954) 15 exemplaires
To the Dark Tower (1969) 11 exemplaires
The Man the Martians Made (1954) 10 exemplaires
The Man From Time (1954) 10 exemplaires
The Mississippi Saucer (1951) 9 exemplaires
So Dark a Heritage (1966) 7 exemplaires
The Sky Trap (1941) 7 exemplaires
In una piccola città 6 exemplaires
The Horror Expert (1961) 6 exemplaires
Crucible of Evil (1974) 6 exemplaires
John Carstairs Space Detective (1949) 6 exemplaires
Autobiographical Memoir (1986) 5 exemplaires
Di fronte all'ignoto 4 exemplaires
Legacy of Evil (1973) 4 exemplaires
Woman From Another Planet (1960) 4 exemplaires
The Space Eaters (1928) — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
Le Gnome Rouge (1975) 3 exemplaires
The 7th Ghost Story MEGAPACK® (2016) 3 exemplaires
The goblin tower 3 exemplaires
Lake Of Fire 2 exemplaires
The Unfinished 2 exemplaires
Wobblies In The Moon 2 exemplaires
Man From UNCLE magazine, May 1967 (1967) 2 exemplaires
Green Glory 2 exemplaires
The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK® (2017) 2 exemplaires
Cottage Tenant 2 exemplaires
The Timeless Ones 2 exemplaires
Dark Awakening 2 exemplaires
Three Steps Spaceward (1963) 2 exemplaires
House of the Deadly Nightshade (1972) 2 exemplaires
Two Face 1 exemplaire
...and Others Shall Be Born (1968) 1 exemplaire
A Visitor From Egypt 1 exemplaire
De fremmede 1 exemplaire
Collector's Item 1 exemplaire
The Lemoyne Heritage (1977) 1 exemplaire
Brown 1 exemplaire
Throwback In Time 1 exemplaire
The Robot Empire 1 exemplaire
Temporary Warp 1 exemplaire
The Martian visitors 1 exemplaire
The Shape of Fear (1971) 1 exemplaire
The Mercurian (1941) 1 exemplaire
The Light-Kill Affair 1 exemplaire
Fire of the Witches (1971) 1 exemplaire
The Goliath Affair 1 exemplaire
Fire of the Witches 1 exemplaire
The Mating Center 1 exemplaire
Time Trap 1 exemplaire
Atomic Station 1 exemplaire
The Vibration Wasps 1 exemplaire

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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.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |

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Œuvres
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Membres
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Popularité
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