In Search of a Classic: The Mummy
The Mummy as a monster was created out of ignorance. The mystique of evil Egyptian sorceries was the vagaries of human curiosity. Hieroglyphics were not Read More
Category: Cthulhu Mythos
Jack Williamson in Weird Tales
Jack Williamson (1908-2006) is considered one of the great pioneers of quality Science Fiction. He, like his buddy Edmond Hamilton, had the strange idea of Read More
Link: The Graveyard Rats: Kuttner Komics
“The Graveyard Rats” (Weird Tales, March 1936) by Henry Kuttner was a spectacular debut for a writer of horror. Though in later years Kuttner seemed Read More
Link: Literary Slumming: August Derleth and Mark R. Schorer
It is easy for readers like myself to forget that Weird Tales writers and other pulpsters had literary ambitions. Dwelling in my fan-boy bubble, I Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Four: With Trembling Pen in Hand…
The trail has been long, beginning in the 1863 with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House By the Churchyard, leading us through the 1920s and Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Three: Clark Ashton Smith, The Great Thing
I saw something that bothered me the other day. A professional writer whom I admire said something to the effect that Clark Ashton Smith was Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Two: Recycling the Mythos
In my last column, I talked about how J. Sheridan Le Fanu influenced H.P. Lovecraft, even though he never read the Irish master’s many great Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part One: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
H.P. Lovecraft was pretty thorough in his survey The Supernatural Horror in Literature, but he did not possess a crystal ball. He was limited to Read More
Link: Portrait of the Author as a Young Madman
The Lovecraft Circle played a kind of game, one in which they shared manuscripts before publication, in-jokes, writing jams and putting little snippets from one Read More
Solomon Kane: The Weird Tales Adaptations
Solomon Kane is an iconic character. When Hugh Jackman plays a descendant of Abraham van Helsing, he looks like Kane. That austere warrior in the Read More