tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post3682919874475213248..comments2024-03-28T16:39:46.847-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Middle American Indians on the Cover of Weird TalesTerence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-28471727426363447442021-07-22T18:51:32.204-04:002021-07-22T18:51:32.204-04:00Hi, David,
I didn't forget Robert H. Barlow, ...Hi, David,<br /><br />I didn't forget Robert H. Barlow, but I also didn't provide the information on his career that you did.<br /><br />Thanks for writing.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-23431332167519665302021-07-22T12:35:26.668-04:002021-07-22T12:35:26.668-04:00This is fascinating, and please don't forget R...This is fascinating, and please don't forget Robert Barlow, who was probably so inspired by this fiction that he went to Berkley to study Nahuatl and ended up moving to Mexico to become one of the foremost Mesoamericanists of the 20th century.David Horacio Colmenareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557426011444151453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-57712062841714229732016-12-07T22:26:49.713-05:002016-12-07T22:26:49.713-05:00Mike,
Thanks for the background information on Ce...Mike,<br /><br />Thanks for the background information on Central and South American cultures. It's always good to put developments in fantasy and science fiction into a larger cultural and historical context. By the way, Nictzin Dyalhis got his first name from Middle American languages. He seems to have assumed that name in the period circa 1890-1912. I wonder if there was a Middle American craze in American popular culture or even high culture sometime during that period.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-39249001193037705542016-12-05T09:19:01.559-05:002016-12-05T09:19:01.559-05:00Terence,
The Maya also fit prominently into the Do...Terence,<br />The Maya also fit prominently into the Doc Savage series, beginning with the very first story THE MAN OF BRONZE in 1933. In that tale Doc and his band of adventurers discover a hidden city of ancient Mayans still living high in the mountains of the fictional Central American country of Hidalgo (which is actually the name of a state in Mexico.) The cover of that first pulp depicts Doc in front of a large carven Mayan relic with several indians in the background; a true classic pulp image by Walter Baumhofer.<br /><br />Fascination with Central and South American ancient cultures and lost cities can probably be attributed to the highly publicized explorations of Percy Fawcett in the first quarter of the 20th Century. He was the inspiration for such fictional characters as Prof. Challenger (likely) and Fran Striker's Hamilton Quest (definitely.) In 1925 Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon region while searching for his obsession, the Lost City of Z. Check out the aptly titled book THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann for the whole story; a true tale of obsession as engaging as any pulp fiction you've ever read...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00263957025573611416noreply@blogger.com