Have An Island Holiday: Weird Tales Style!
Have an island holiday: Weird Tales style! Here are seventeen wonderful isles to visit this year. Traveling this season could be a little dangerous so Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
Link: Ghosts at Christmas: Dickens to Davies
Charles Dickens gets the credit for the idea of a ghost story at Christmas. We all know Scrooge, whether it’s Alastair Sim, Bill Murray, Patrick Read More
The Time of Your Death
We are having the time of your death! Time has always been a focus for unusual tales, even before H. G. Wells’s masterpiece “The Time Read More
The Jamesian Break in Ghost Stories
Before the Break There was a Jamesian break in the ghost story model that happened around 1900. This really came home to me as I Read More
Let’s Haunt a House: Young Ghostbreakers
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
The Strangest Northerns: The Creepers
William Merriam Rouse (1884-1937) was a prolific writer of Northern stories for the Pulps. For a time Rouse lived in Quebec, absorbing the language and Read More
The House on the Marsh: Mythos Mimic
“The House on the Marsh” by Fredrick Cowles is a good Mythos mimic. I found it while spending some time with Michel Parry’s excellent Mayflower Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Phantom Cougar
“The Phantom Cougar” by W. Bertram Sinclair is a typical false monster tale for a magazine that published few real supernatural tales. The Popular Magazine, Read More
Ghost Stories From Victorian Magazines
Ghost stories From Victorian magazines are the main source of most ghost story anthologies. Despite this fact, the same old chestnuts get used and re-used Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted Part 1
Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted is a good example of using brand recognition to sell a product. The comic strip that appeared on Read More