Manly Wade Wellman’s Werewolves
Manly Wade Wellman wrote hundreds of fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters including werewolves. He wrote of them early in the pages of Weird Tales Read More
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Edgar Rice Conan Verne in Seven Pages
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and maybe just a dash of H. Rider Haggard, and all in seven pages. Ace Magazines published Read More
Web of Mystery: Ace’s Spider Monsters
These comics spin a web of mystery around their readers! Spider monsters in Horror comics are not uncommon, and Ace Magazines was no different. Classic Read More
Frank Belknap Long: Editor
At the end of the 1940s, Frank Belknap Long worked in comic books as well as Pulps. With the Pulps fading away in the 1950s, Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 3 (1944-1949)
If you miss Part 2… The 1940s saw Wellman write many of his most famous pieces including the John Thunstone stories as well as Read More
Mike Ploog at Warren
Before Mike Ploog made a supernatural splash at Marvel drawing The Monster of Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night, he drew four pieces for the horror Read More
Sword & Sorcery Break & Enter
There is a small group of Sword & Sorcery tales that involve a hero in a break & enter into a wizard’s domicile. This is Read More
Donald F. Glut in Mystery Comics Digest
Donald F. Glut in Mystery Comics Digest is a Halloween feast for classic monster lovers. The comic ran from March 1972 to October 1975, acting Read More
One-Shot Occult Detectives
One-shot occult detectives are more common than you know. The early comics all had to have one. After Siegel & Shuster created Dr. Occult, they Read More
The Many Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1929. It received an illustration by Hugh Rankin. (Rankin signed it DOAK because Read More