Two Adventure Classics of My Youth
Neither of these books are Science Fiction, fantasy or Horror per se, but their adventurousness made them welcome to a boy who loved Edgar Rice Read More
Month: April 2020
Link: James Blish of the Jungle
James Blish won his place in Science Fiction history through the critical and the popular. On the critical side, his novel A Case of Conscience Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Keith Edgar
Keith Edgar was a writer of adventure novels and stories in the 1940s. We don’t really know much else about him. He wrote seven novels Read More
“The King of the Ring” by Wally Wood
Plop #23 (September-October 1976) featured a very special comic for Fantasy fans. This was “The King of the Ring” by Wally Wood. By 1976, The Read More
Link: The Game’s Afoot: Mythos Mysteries
There is no requirement that a Mythos tale have a mystery in it, but the most successful often do. The main character of “The Call Read More
Link: Manly Banister’s Werewolves
At the age of 13, Manly Banister (March 9, 1914 – June 1986) like many Science Fiction writers began in the fanzines. In the 1950s Read More
Swords vs. Tentacles
The 1970s saw an explosion in Sword & Sorcery comics and with it a trope that has become almost a cliche: the tentacled monster. The Read More
Link: Apocalyptic Fiction
Life is what happens to you when you aren’t paying attention. Usually these life events take the form of a surprise in one way or Read More
Link: H. P. Lovecraft, Fantasist
If you look at the contents page of The Best of H. P. Lovecraft (Del Rey, 1982) you will find only one story from HPL’s Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Terror at the Poles
The typical Northern is a tale of the Gold Rush of 1898 or the lumber camps of the 1910s or even the story of prairie Read More