The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 4
1927 saw Seabury Quinn settle into his schedule of writing regular de Grandin tales. he would write seven for this year, about one story every Read More
Category: G. W. Thomas
J. Allen St. John at Weird Tales
J. Allen St. John (1872-1957) will always be remembered first and foremost as the artist who brought the imaginative worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs to Read More
Link: John Hanson of the Space Patrol Service
Buck Rogers may have been the first recognizable hero in Science Fiction, so much so that his name became synonymous with the genre, but his Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Nyoka Style
May 1947 gave us Nyoka the Jungle Girl #7 and a three-part adventure in the Arctic. Now if you aren’t familiar with Nyoka, she is Read More
“The Leopard’s Paw” by Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was a Science Fiction writer who is loved for his Captain Future novels, his Star Kings and any number of other Pulp stories. Read More
DC Comics Versus Pulps Covers
DC Comics spawned some long-running anthology comics in the 1950s including House of Mystery in Horror and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. The editors of Read More
Link: Robots Can’t Lie
Isaac Asimov claims that the science fiction story was never truly married with the mystery story before 1953. Some authors tried, while others danced around Read More
Who Was the First Ghostbreaker? A Conversation with Christopher Lyons
G. W. Thomas: Who do you consider the first Ghostbreaker? Christopher Lyons: Bill Murray? But seriously, folks. Samuel Warren began to lay down some of Read More
Link: The Unnameable or The Monster as Euphemism
H. P. Lovecraft pokes fun at a Monster Writer’s Dilemma in his short horror tale, “The Unnameable”. He begins it this way: We were sitting Read More
Astro-Adventures: A Blaster from the Past
The 1980s saw the pinnacle of small press magazines that began back in the 1930s as fanzines and improved over the decades as copying technology Read More