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Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994)

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

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The Hounds of Tindalos (1946) 200 Exemplare
Survival World (1971) 113 Exemplare
The Rim of the Unknown (1972) 66 Exemplare
Lest Earth Be Conquered (1968) 63 Exemplare
Mars is My Destination (1962) — Autor — 53 Exemplare
It Was the Day of the Robot (1963) 44 Exemplare
Space Station #1 (1957) 40 Exemplare
Odd Science Fiction (1964) 40 Exemplare
Night Fear (1979) 40 Exemplare
The Horror from the Hills (1931) 39 Exemplare
In Mayan Splendor (1977) 38 Exemplare
Journey into Darkness (1967) 38 Exemplare
Es kam aus der Tiefe (1970) 34 Exemplare
This Strange Tomorrow (1966) 28 Exemplare
The Thief of Thoth / ...and Others Shall be Born (1968) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
Adventures Into The Unknown! Archives, Volume 1 (2012) — Autor — 21 Exemplare
The Three Faces of Time (1969) 18 Exemplare
The Witch Tree (1971) 16 Exemplare
The Night of the Wolf (1972) 15 Exemplare
The Calm Man (1954) 15 Exemplare
To the Dark Tower (1969) 11 Exemplare
The Man the Martians Made (1954) 10 Exemplare
The Man From Time (1954) 10 Exemplare
The Mississippi Saucer (1951) 9 Exemplare
So Dark a Heritage (1966) 7 Exemplare
The Sky Trap (1941) 7 Exemplare
The Horror Expert (1961) 6 Exemplare
Crucible of Evil (1974) 6 Exemplare
John Carstairs Space Detective (1949) 6 Exemplare
Autobiographical Memoir (1986) 5 Exemplare
Legacy of Evil (1973) 4 Exemplare
Woman From Another Planet (1960) 4 Exemplare
The Space Eaters (1928) — Autor — 3 Exemplare
Le Gnome Rouge (1975) 3 Exemplare
The 7th Ghost Story MEGAPACK® (2016) 3 Exemplare
The goblin tower 3 Exemplare
Lake Of Fire 2 Exemplare
The Unfinished 2 Exemplare
Green Glory 2 Exemplare
The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK® (2017) 2 Exemplare
Cottage Tenant 2 Exemplare
The Timeless Ones 2 Exemplare
Dark Awakening 2 Exemplare
Three Steps Spaceward (1963) 2 Exemplare
House of the Deadly Nightshade (1972) 2 Exemplare
Two Face 1 Exemplar
...and Others Shall Be Born (1968) 1 Exemplar
De fremmede 1 Exemplar
Collector's Item 1 Exemplar
The Lemoyne Heritage (1977) 1 Exemplar
Brown 1 Exemplar
Throwback In Time 1 Exemplar
The Robot Empire 1 Exemplar
Temporary Warp 1 Exemplar
The Shape of Fear (1971) 1 Exemplar
The Mercurian (1941) 1 Exemplar
Fire of the Witches (1971) 1 Exemplar
The Goliath Affair 1 Exemplar
The Mating Center 1 Exemplar
Time Trap 1 Exemplar
Atomic Station 1 Exemplar

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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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