I am raising from the dead the
Mañana Literary Society
I suspect the two men on either side of the woman on the left, are Arthur Barnes, and John K. Butler. Arthur was a pioneer Science Fiction writer. I have exchanged ideas with Graham Hancock whose novel inspired Roland Emmerich in the making of 2012. I have asked the gentleman from the Channel Islands University to help me identify these people, especially the man with a gun. I believe these are members of the Black Mask, and Manana Society. This is a new animal ‘The Manana Society Blog’ published in the Social Media.
John Presco
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Black Mask Authors
This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.
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