Welcome to the Terror Garden – Plant Monsters by the Bushel
They are older than Man, older than the animals of Earth. They never sleep. But they are always watching. And waiting. In a war that Read More
Author: G. W. Thomas
The Quick, Sharp Stroke – Writing Micro-Fiction
I started with Flash Fiction in the 1980s. Inspired by writers like Saki, Fredric Brown and John Collier. I wrote an Internet classic with “Writing Read More
Brak the Barbarian: A History
The Barbarian Age was not a remote time after the fall of Rome but the years 1968 to 1981 or so. Beginning with the Lancer Read More
A Cowboy, A Space Captain, a Private Detective and a Barbarian Walk Into a Bar…
That could be the beginnings of a really lame joke, but it’s something more. All four of these characters, these separate genre icons, share something Read More
The Last Case of Jules deGrandjerque
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, does not always play out when the imitation proves to be a satire. I was surprised to hear Read More
The Werewolves of Weird Tales – 1936-1954
Continuing our list of great werewolf stories from “The Unique Magazine”. As the Pulp moved into the 1940s and the editorship of Dorothy McIlwraith the Read More
Werewolves of Weird Tales – 1923-1935
(Feel free to sing “Werewolves of Weird Tales” to Warren Zevon’s classic song. I know I did. I know you will, too.) If you are Read More
British Apemen of the Boys’ Papers
The Jungle Lord is a cultural construct, like the Western gun-fighter, the Northern Mountie, the Noir private detective or the African adventurer. All these motifs Read More
Horror Science Fiction
Science Fiction. To some it is a literature of ideas, with the intent to explore, to wonder, to question. To others it is a fun-filled Read More
Guardians of the Ancient: Chapel Hill Reunion
Sometimes fans can get so heated up by a favorite story sequence or saga that they start to see examples everywhere. For me it was Read More