Here Comes the Bride!
Here comes the bride… and boy, is she a beauty! The Golden Age of Horror Comics loved a good wedding. Here are thirteen unlucky nuptials Read More
Category: Cthulhu Mythos
Ova Hamlet: The Sound of Distant Memory
Ova Hamlet The Ova Hamlet stories of Richard A. Lupoff appeared in Ted White’s Fantastic (1969-1975). There were nine stories, each a strange milestone on Read More
“Cats Can Kill” by Ray Cummings
“Cats Can Kill” by Ray Cummings is a mystery wrapped up in a hair ball. This tale of were-cats appears in December 1941’s The Masked Read More
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery: 1948-1953
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery… where terror hangs on the wall. Where art meets madness and talent is used for evil. The old Gothics and Read More
The Original Thongor Stories
The original Thongor stories by Lin Carter sometimes get ignored because they were not collected with the original six novels. The Thongor novels began in Read More
The Return of a Master: Lee Brown Coye
Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) made his debut on the covers of anthologies like Arkham House’s Sleep No More (1944) before moving onto the pages of Read More
Frank Belknap Long’s The Man With a Thousand Legs
Weird Tales Premiere Frank Belknap Long‘s “The Man With a Thousand Legs” first appeared in Weird Tales, August 1927, where it received a wonderful illustration Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style IV
If you missed the last one… “Diary of Doom” is a strange Northern that appeared in Adventures Into the Unknown #12 (August-September 1950). The author Read More
The Other Worlds: A Pulp Snapshot
The Other Worlds, an anthology by Phil Stong and Garden City Publishing, is a Pulp snapshot of the industry of fantastic literature before 1942. Where Read More
The Fire of Asshurbanipal: Adventure Meets Horror
A Late Manuscript “The Fire of Asshurbanipal” (Weird Tales, December 1936) by Robert E. Howard is the point at which adventure fiction and horror meet. Read More