Showing posts with label Howard Hopkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Hopkins. Show all posts

Saturday, December 01, 2018

The Green Ghost: Declassified - audio book!

Along with my fellow creators, Eric Fein, David Niehaus, and Malcolm McClinton, I'm very pleased to announce that The Green Ghost: Declassified (Moonstone Books) is now available as an audio book read by Roger Price!


The audio book features seven prose tales.


Of course, if you also want the two comic stories and the accompanying illustrations to the prose stories, then please buy the print version, which is available in:


The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I. V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!
Audio book contents:

ZOMBIES UNDER BROADWAY by Win Scott Eckert and Eric Fein

DEATH SCREAM OVERDRIVE by Eric Fein
Featuring The Black Shrike and The Green Ghost

GHOST OF A CHANCE by Howard Hopkins

CHANCE OF A GHOST by Win Scott Eckert

THE PHANTOM’S GHOST by Eric Fein
Featuring The Green Ghost and the Phantom of the Opera

DAME SINSESTRE by Win Scott Eckert
Featuring The Green Ghost and The Domino Lady vs. a Rohmer-esque femme fatale

MURDER IN THE MIND’S EYE by Eric Fein
Featuring The Green Ghost and I. V. Frost

I'm especially pleased that we were able to include a previously unpublished Green Ghost story by the late Howard Hopkins. Howard was a fantastic writer and a pulp expert. Hopefully the rescue of this tale and it's inclusion in this collection begins to pay back, in some small way, the inspiration and friendship which Howard showed me.
The Green Ghost: Declassified audio book is available at:

Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Green Ghost: Declassified - Ebook out on Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook!

Along with my fellow creators, Eric Fein, David Niehaus, and Malcolm McClinton, I'm very pleased to announce that The Green Ghost: Declassified (Moonstone Books) is now available as an ebook on both Amazon Kindle and B&N Nook!


The ebook collection features seven prose tales.

Of course, if you also want the two comic stories and the accompanying illustrations to the prose stories, then please buy the print version, which is available in:


The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I. V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!
Ebook contents:

ZOMBIES UNDER BROADWAY by Win Scott Eckert and Eric Fein

DEATH SCREAM OVERDRIVE by Eric Fein
Featuring The Black Shrike and The Green Ghost

GHOST OF A CHANCE by Howard Hopkins

CHANCE OF A GHOST by Win Scott Eckert

THE PHANTOM’S GHOST by Eric Fein
Featuring The Green Ghost and the Phantom of the Opera

DAME SINSESTRE by Win Scott Eckert
Featuring The Green Ghost and The Domino Lady vs. a Rohmer-esque femme fatale

MURDER IN THE MIND’S EYE by Eric Fein
Featuring The Green Ghost and I. V. Frost

I'm especially pleased that we were able to include a previously unpublished Green Ghost story by the late Howard Hopkins. Howard was a fantastic writer and a pulp expert. Hopefully the rescue of this tale and it's inclusion in this collection begins to pay back, in some small way, the inspiration and friendship which Howard showed me.
The Green Ghost: Declassified ebook is available on:

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Green Ghost: Declassified - Contents Reveal!

On behalf of my fellow creators, Eric Fein, David Niehaus, and Malcolm McClinton, I'm very pleased to announce the contents for The Green Ghost: Declassified, coming in late October from Moonstone Books. The collection features a combination of seven prose tales (some with accompanying illustrations) and two comic stories.

The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I. V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!

ZOMBIES UNDER BROADWAY by Win Scott Eckert and Eric Fein, illustrations by David Niehaus


DEATH SCREAM OVERDRIVE by Eric Fein

Featuring The Black Shrike and The Green Ghost


THE MYSTERY NAMED ROSABELLE writer: Eric Fein / artist and letterer: David Niehaus


GHOST OF A CHANCE by Howard Hopkins


CHANCE OF A GHOST by Win Scott Eckert


THE PHANTOM’S GHOST by Eric Fein, illustrations by David Niehaus

Featuring The Green Ghost and the Phantom of the Opera


DAME SINSESTRE by Win Scott Eckert

Featuring The Green Ghost and The Domino Lady


OF MONSTERS AND MEN writer: Eric Fein / artist and letterer: David Niehaus


MURDER IN THE MIND’S EYE by Eric Fein

Featuring The Green Ghost and I. V. Frost

I'm especially pleased to announce the existence of a previously unpublished Green Ghost story by the late Howard Hopkins. Howard was a fantastic writer and a pulp expert. Hopefully the rescue of this tale and it's inclusion in this collection begins to pay back, in some small way, the inspiration and friendship which Howard showed me.

The Green Ghost: Declassified is available now for preorder from the August 2016 Diamond Previews catalog and ships to local comic shops in late October.

Alternatively, you can order direct from sites such as Things from Another World.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Howard Hopkins, R.I.P.

My friend, and fellow writer and editor, Howard Hopkins, passed away last week at the too young age of 50. Howard was my editor on the first two Avenger anthologies from Moonstone Books, and the forthcoming Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook anthology from Moonstone. He was the authority on the pulp hero The Avenger, and penned The Gray Nemesis, which is and will remain the go-to comprehensive overview of the character.

I also had the pleasure of co-editing three of his Green Hornet tales (the third forthcoming in The Green Hornet: Still at Large). He turned in some of the cleanest, most professional first draft manuscripts I've seen.

Howard's authorized Lone Ranger novel, Vendetta, is also due out soon from Moonstone, and I know that Howard was justifiably proud of this achievement. I can't wait to read it the moment it comes out.

I learned a lot from Howard, who was very patient in his commentary, and am proud to say that by my second and third submissions to him, I had very few comments back. As I said, he was a good an patient teacher, and truly cared about craft in writing. I will miss working with him, and will miss him.


The best way I can think of to honor Howard is to go out and buy and read as much of his work as possible. Here is a link to his novels available on Amazon.

But there's another way to help... unfortunately. 

At the request of Howard's wife, Dominique, Chuck Juzek has passed the following info along to the pulp fan community. Due to a mistake by their insurance agent 6 months ago that Dominique only became aware of after Howard's death, Howard's life insurance had lapsed at the time of his death. As a result, in addition to everything else that his passing means to her, she's now scrambling in order to find the funds to pay for his funeral expenses. If you have the ability, she's accepting donations to help pay for those expenses; at her request, below is her address for anyone that wishes to contribute.

Dominique Hopkins
2 McKee Drive
Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064


I'm still in shock, but I can't begin to imagine what Mrs. Hopkins is going through. Any help will be greatly appreciated, I'm sure. Meteor House, a small press I sometimes work with, is also pitching in.


Rest in Peace, Howard. You were--are--the epitome of a Pro.