The Original Conan Art
The original Conan by Robert E. Howard appeared largely in Weird Tales. Because of this, the artists of Weird Tales are intrinsically linked to the Read More
Month: November 2019
The Jungle Girl List
The Jungle Girl phenomenon pre-dates Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and Jane. W. H. Hudson’s novel Green Mansions (1904) featuring Rima the Jungle Girl, appeared eleven Read More
The Ghosts of an Antiquary
M. R. James (1862-1936) is in my mind the greatest of all the ghost story writers. Nobody else can deliver a true shudder of grim Read More
It’s Okay…I’m a Doctor!
The non-comic reading world got an introduction to mystical superheroes with Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Now part of the Infinity War movies, little Read More
William Hope Hodgson: The Bottleneck
Horror writers use many techniques to heighten the terror in their work. One of my favorites is the bottleneck. As with traffic jams, the bottleneck Read More
Jungle Jim
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More
Five Things I Like About Fantastic Story Quarterly
Fantastic Story Quarterly, then Fantastic Story Magazine, was published by Best Books Inc. from the Winter of 1950 to the Spring of 1955. It is Read More
The Case of the Coptic Priest
How do you create an Occult Detective in the last half of the 20th century? Edward D. Hoch found an old solution to a new Read More
Jack Kirby’s Kamandi Kritters
Planet of the Apes gave us more than just the immortal Charleton Heston screaming “Get your hands off me, you damn dirty apes!” and “Damn Read More
The First Mythos Images
I came across Hannes Bok’s illustration for H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and this got me thinking, “Is this the very first interpretation Read More