The Land Unknown (1957)
The Land Unknown Trailer Director: Virgil W. VogelCast: Jock Mahoney and Shirley PattersonShawn SmithWilliam ReynoldsHenry BrandonDouglas KennedyPhil Harvey An expedition to the Antarctic discovers a Read More
Category: Adventure
The Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Earl Norem (1923-2015)
Earl Norem began his career as an illustrator after serving in World War II. He was incredibly prolific, doing work for men’s magazines, trading cards, Read More
Link: The Jungle Cover Triangle
Looking at copies of Jumbo Tales I was first struck by how lush these covers were (and who could refuse buying them?), but secondly how Read More
The Barely-There Monsters of Thomas Malory
The Arthurian legends have a long and complicated history. Originally Celtic tales, as we can still glean from The Mabinogion, the stories in Medieval times Read More
Link: The Terror of the Sea Caves: An Adventure in Publishing
Jan Laurvik stumbles upon a knife fight in the streets of Singapore. An Englishman and his Lascar mate have taken the worst of it in Read More
Link: The Top of the World: The Fiction of Ian Cameron
A bad movie can scar the reputation of a good book for many years. One such is The Lost Ones (1960), better known as Island Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Gold Key Style
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a successful television show by producer Irwin Allen (1916-1991). The show was based on a film of Read More
Link: The City of Spiders: H. Warner Munn’s Forgotten Classic
The early issues of Weird Tales are full of surprises. They leap out at you when you aren’t expecting them. The stories before 1935 are Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 1
….“you’re Professor Jules de Grandin, the author of Accelerated Evolution?” “The Horror on the Links” originally appeared in Weird Tales, October 1925. A girl is Read More
The Comic Books of Patricia Highsmith
Before Patricia Highsmith became a bestselling Mystery writer, penning such classics as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, she worked in comics. Read More