The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 6
Seabury Quinn is now grinding the Jules de Grandin tales out at a quick pace but despite that these are the best of the tales. Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 4 (1952-1953)
If you missed Part 3 The rest of 1952 and into 1953 saw werewolves in all the ACG horror titles. Again traditional ideas and some Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 3 (1952)
If you missed Part 2 The stories for this segment all came from four issues of Adventures Into the Unknown in 1952. The writers, who Read More
The Cases of Jules De Grandin – Part 5
Seabury Quinn was now getting a de Grandin story into every or every other issue of Weird Tales. For the Summer of 1927, each issue Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 1 (1948-1951)
American Comics Group had five horror titles including Adventures Into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds, Out of the Night, The Skeleton Hand and The Clutching Hand. Read More
The Abominations of Yondo
The triple-decker Fantasy novels of the 20th Century, most cast in the semblance of J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterworks, bear little fruit for me. When Read More
Ancient Terrors: The Ghost Stories of Greece and Rome
The creation of the Gothic Novel is accredited to Horace Walpole in 1764 with the writing of The Castle of Otranto. This book inspired an Read More