The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 6
Seabury Quinn is now grinding the Jules de Grandin tales out at a quick pace but despite that these are the best of the tales. Read More
Month: April 2020
Swords of Mars: A Gallery
Edgar Rice Burroughs remains a popular author after a hundred years for many good reasons. First off, is the sheer imagination of his storytelling. This Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 4 (1952-1953)
If you missed Part 3 The rest of 1952 and into 1953 saw werewolves in all the ACG horror titles. Again traditional ideas and some Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 3 (1952)
If you missed Part 2 The stories for this segment all came from four issues of Adventures Into the Unknown in 1952. The writers, who Read More
The Monster-God Premiere: Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton’s first appearance in any professional publication was “The Monster-God of Mamurth” in Weird Tales, August 1926. In this tale, an archaeologist seeks out Read More
The ‘Barely-There’ Costumes (and Plot) of Zardoz
The 1970’s was a curious decade for science fiction films. Almost every science fiction film released in this decade ended up being overshadowed by the Read More
King Kull Covers
Conan the Barbarian will always be Robert E. Howard’s top dog but there are those of us who enjoy Kull just as much. (In Robert Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More