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
Category: Ghost Stories
The Pulp Writer’s Lament: A Mystery
I have killed a thousand men. In the dark alleys of small towns I have waylaid and slugged them; on the foggy streets of sleeping Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Old Black Magic and Weird Tales
Old Black Magic would not be out of place in Weird Tales. But what about Short Stories? The truth is both magazines were edited by Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Forest of Death
“The Forest of Death” is a strange Northern set in the Big Woods of Quebec. It appeared in Charlton’s This Magazine Is Haunted #15 (February Read More
Weird Tales Sea Voyage Terrors
Last time our brochure we suggested a lovely holiday on a sandy beach somewhere tropical. But what if you don’t want to leave the boat Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Stanley Waterloo
Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was an American writer of note, largely for the novel The Story of Ab (1897), a prehistoric journal of a young man’s Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Out of the Storm
“Out of the Storm” appeared in Marvel’s Strange Tales #37 (August 1955). The author is not known but the art was done by Dick Ayers. Read More
The Moonstone Legacy: A Gothic Trope
Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) has left Mystery and Horror fiction a legacy trope. This is the idea of the terrible revenge out of the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Sword of the Vikings
“Sword of the Vikings” is a strange Northern that appeared in St. John’s Strange Terrors #7 (March 1953). Neither the writer nor the artist is Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Purple Claw
The Purple Claw was a Golden Age comics ghostbreaker from Toby Press. The author is unknown but all the strips were drawn by Ben Brown Read More