FORGOTTEN BOOKS #202: John Carstairs: Space Detective By Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long is best remembered for his Cthulhu Mythos stories like “The Hounds of Tindalos.” But the prolific Long also wrote his own unique brand of science fiction blended with mystery. This new Ramble House collection brings all of the John Carstairs stories together for the first time. If you like mysteries with a science fiction element to them, these long forgotten stories will delight you!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PLANTS MUST GROW
SNAPDRAGON
PLANTS MUST SLAY
SATELLITE OF PERIL
THE ETHER ROBOTS
THE HEAVY MAN
WOBBLIES IN THE MOON
THE HOLLOW WORLD

18 thoughts on “FORGOTTEN BOOKS #202: John Carstairs: Space Detective By Frank Belknap Long

  1. Scott Cupp

    George – You read my mind. I had recently obtained a UK paperback of this title and was thinking of doing vit. You beat me to it. Still fun stuff.

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  2. Carl V.

    I have a Frank Belknap Long short story collection that I should really pull out and read for RIP this year. It is filled with stories that look to have more of a ‘scary’ bent but I suspect they have a degree of cross-genre flavor to them.

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    1. george Post author

      Frank Belknap Long earned fame for his Lovecraftean stories, Carl. I still remember the first time I read Long’s “The Hounds of Tindalos.”

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  3. Jeff Meyerson

    Cool cover. I too remember reading “The Hound of Tindalos” after discovering Lovecraft and his followers back in the ’70’s.

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  4. Todd Mason

    Ramble House covers do tend to the perfunctory. Long was perhaps the next most reliable exponent of “weird-scientific'” stories in WEIRD TALES after Hamilton…though, indeed, more Lovecraftian than EH chose to be (Long was a Circle member, after all).

    George, I was seeing the “It works!” bug page on your blog again this morning…has that been permanently beaten back yet?

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    1. george Post author

      The “It Works!” seems to pop up in Firefox and GOOGLE CHROME, Todd. It seems to have been beaten back in Internet Explorer and on Apple devices.

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  5. Jeff Meyerson

    I guess the humor didn’t come through.

    Perhaps if I’d said “Like wow, Daddio, cool cover” my meaning would have come through.

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  6. Todd Mason

    RH books are well-enough built, I’d say, and at least mostly good books, often important. Some just need better covers; certainly more professional ones would help sales, I think.

    Weird (or is that just sad) that the bug is only active in some browsers (and, as it happens, the two I use the most).

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