Thirteen Ghosts (of Celluloid)
Halloween is gone and Christmas is still a number of weeks away. I like to think of the time between October 31 and December 25 Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
The Ghostbreakers Before the Pulps
This post is brought to you by Strange Detectives, now on sale in ebook and paperback. The occult detective was a product of the Gothic Read More
The Dragons of Archie Comics
If you missed the last one… Like humorous dragons? You can’t do any better than T. Neil Thomas’ The Masterless Assassin , which features a Read More
The Day of the Dragon
Science Fiction and Fantasy has always been on a seesaw. At one time it is considered to be worthy of the word “literature” and then Read More
James Allison in “The Tower of Time”
Reading Harvey K. Schreiber’s “Death From the Sea” got me reading other old issues of Fantastic where I found this story. “The Tower of Time” Read More
Harvey K. Schreiber’s The Eagle and the Sword
Ted White, when he was the editor of Fantastic (April 1969-January 1979), did big things with very little money. This meant he grabbed Sword & Read More
Haunted! Part 2!
If you missed the last one… Happy Halloween! Today’s post is brought to you by Hallowed, an Iron Faerie collection of Halloween themed stories to Read More
Haunted! Part 1!
Haunted houses are a traditional setting for certain types of Halloween stories. The old abandoned building that remembers terrible deeds committed there works both as Read More
Captain Dexter Ames in Planet Comics
Planet Comics was a sister publication to Fiction House’s quarterly Pulp, Planet Stories. It began in January 1940 and ran for seventy-eight issues, ending in Read More
The Solomon Kane Adventures of Don Glut
If you missed the last one… Solomon Kane, unlike Conan, Kull or Red Sonja, never had a long-running Marvel series that required different writers to Read More