Mad Scientists, A Criteria
Mad scientists got their big start with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) though the wicked or foolish creator can be found in myth and legend. The Read More
Mad scientists got their big start with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) though the wicked or foolish creator can be found in myth and legend. The Read More
Brain-stealers! As a kid, I can recall the sheer terror of Doctor McCoy saying to Captain Kirk: “His brain is gone.” Aliens have stolen Mr. Read More
A Long Tradition “Let’s Haunt a House” by Manly Wade Wellman is an interesting middle stop in a line that runs to this day. Boys’ Read More
Early next week we will be releasing Session #1 of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table podcast with Scott Oden, John R. Read More
Our fourth episode of the Dark Worlds Podcast is live and we talk Doc Savage with Will Murray! Will Murray is the quintessential pulp writer. Read More
When you think of Doc Savage Comics, you probably think of the Jim Steranko color comic or the black & white magazine by Marvel. Maybe Read More
Robert E. Howard described his most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, not in minute detail but more like a force of nature. In his first Read More
In epic poetry, scholars refer to the “high mimetic” to describe poetry that elevates a subject to a larger than life mode. Take war for Read More
We listed the Doc Savage Northerns in another piece but we didn’t really get to look at comic books. Doc Savage Comics #3 (February 1941) Read More
Lost Worlds are a sub-genre of adventure story made popular by H. Rider Haggard in 1885 with King Solomon’s Mines. (Granted he borrowed from Jules Read More