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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Writers of Science Fiction and Mystery have always shared a common point of origin in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe is usually Read More