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
Category: Ghost Stories
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
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style
American Comics Group had a horror title called Out of the Night that ran from February-March 1952 to October-November 1954 with 17 issues. These were Read More
Link: August Derleth: Hack or Hero?
August Derleth has been the whipping boy for HPL fans since 1939, when he created Arkham House with Donald Wandrei, a publishing concern specifically created Read More
Fredric Brown’s The Ghost Breakers
Guess how excited I got when I stumbled across “The Ghost Breakers” by Fredric Brown in 5 Detective Novels (Summer 1952), a reprint Pulp. Originally Read More
Link: EAP-HPL-PKD: Shades of the Gothic
The word ‘Gothic’ has many definitions, all conflicting. First, it means the Germanic people who, amongst other tribes, sacked Rome in 410 AD. Because of Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Keith Edgar
Keith Edgar was a writer of adventure novels and stories in the 1940s. We don’t really know much else about him. He wrote seven novels Read More
Link: The Game’s Afoot: Mythos Mysteries
There is no requirement that a Mythos tale have a mystery in it, but the most successful often do. The main character of “The Call Read More