Dark Shadows!
Horror comic covers can be quite explicit but the best often suggest rather than show the terror. One of the best techniques for this is Read More
Month: April 2020
Link: Shoggoths Away!
If you watch horror or science fiction movies of any decade after the 1950s, you will see slime monsters: viscous jelly creatures that pour onto Read More
Tros of Samothrace: Howardian Forefather
In 1900 Mark Twain defined: “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” That definition comes close to Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Algernon Blackwood Style
There is probably no one more associated with the idea of a ghost story or horror tale set in the North than Algernon Blackwood. He Read More
The Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
Monster Island: Two Classics
The idea of being trapped on an island with some kind of terror is not a new theme. But of all those Dr. Moreau scenarios Read More
Man Versus Gorilla
For me, the battle between super man and super ape began with Tarzan of the Apes. In the book, Tarzan, just a lad, faces off Read More
The Arabian Nights and Sword & Sorcery
The 1001 Nights is a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, and other folk tales including such favorites as Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Read More
Link: Father Brown Goes Mythos
Spoiler Alert: This column will reveal the solution to a famous Mystery story. If you haven’t read it (shame on you!), I apologize in advance. Read More
Asimov’s Golden Age
It is usually difficult to point to one book and say definitively, “That book changed me.” It is usually a gradual process with many books Read More