Canadian Weird Tales Writers
Canadian Weird Tales writers sounds like a very small group. Weren’t Pulp writers a bunch of hacks in crappy apartments in New York City? Their Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
The Strangest Northerns: Reynolds of the Mounted
Art Pinajian (1914-1999) got his start back in the 1930s. One of his first comics was “Reynolds of the Mounted”, a series of four-page Northerns Read More
The Strangest Northerns: W. Victor Cook
“The Chateau Mirabelle” by W. Victor Cook appeared in the October 1909 issue of The Idler. This Northern is sub-titled “A French-Canadian Ghost Story”. The Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Strange Footprints
“Strange Footprints” is a Northern from Adventures Into Darkness #10 (June 1953), part of the Pines group. The author is not known but the artwork Read More
Some Great Monster Stories You May Have Missed
Great monster stories you may have missed are lurking out there in old anthologies and magazines. I’ve been feeling autumnal early this year. That means Read More
Into Outer Darkness
H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964) is the third man in a triumvirate of English ghost story writers. The first two are M. R. James and E. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Valley of the Beasts
“The Valley of the Beasts” is our last Algernon Blackwood Canadian story. It appeared in The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories (1921). As Read More
The Strangest Northerns: First Hate
Algernon Blackwood has a special place in the annals of the strange Northerns. He wrote “The Wendigo”, one of his two most famous stories (The Read More
The Strangest Notherns: Mysterious Adventures
Story Comics produced Mysterious Adventures #1 (March 1951), which featured “The Horrible Fangs of Professor Prome”. The artist and author are not known. This rather Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Hand of Fate Style
The Hand of Fate #18 (June 1953) featured a one-page Northern called “A Hand of Fate Mystery #22”. The author and artist are not known. Read More