Kevin, There were two Wandrei brothers, Donald and Howard.
Donald
was well-known in the 30's for his sci-fi, fantasy and horror
work in
the pulps, and with August derleth he founded Arkham House
around
1937 to collect Lovecraft's work. Donald is the one who wrote
the
Frost stories. Fedogan & Bremer has announced a
collection called
simply FROST for later this year. Howard Wandrei was less
prolific
and less-well-known. He too published in several pulp genres.
Some
of his detective stuff was collected by Fedogan & Bremer
in 1996 as
THE LAST PIN, and they plan to follow this year with another
volume
called DON'T SEND A BOY.
Around 1987, Sam Goldstein's small press, Winds of the World,
issued
a series of booklets, each containing 3 stories from SPICY
DETECTIVE.
Among them was SPICY DETECTIVE ENCORES NO. 3, with 3 tales
by
"Robert A. Garron," a pseudonym for Howard Wandrei,
The SPICY DETECTIVE ENCORES series also included booklets by
E.
Hoffmann Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, and Hugh B. Cave.
Speaking of Cave, who at the age of 87 is one of the last of
the
great pulpsters still active, Tattered Pages Press in Chicago
has
released a collection of Cave's SPICY stories, ESCAPADES OF
THE EEL,
photographically reproduced from the original pulp magazines.
The
Eel was sometimes an adventurer, sometimes a "gentleman
private eye."
Doug
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