E. F. Benson in the Pulps
Edward Frederick Benson (1867-1940) was one of three famous brothers who wrote ghost stories. Arthur Christopher was the eldest while Robert Hugh the baby. Freddy, Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
Elliott O’Donnell: Ghost Hunter and Author
It is hard to imagine how big a writer Elliott O’Donnell was in his day. He is practically forgotten today outside of scholarly circles. This Read More
John Murray Reynolds, Forgotten Pulpster?
John Murray Reynolds (1901-1993) is a writer who was on my radar because I saw his name occasionally in Weird Tales or Planet Stories. I Read More
Gardner F. Fox in the Fantastic Pulps
We live in a time when the creators of Science Fiction’s legacy go unacknowledged. For example, in the 2015 Ant-Man film Scott Lang goes “subatomic” Read More
Link: Fanciful Tales of Time & Space: Fan Fire
Reading a scanned copy of the original Fanciful Tales #1 (Fall 1936) fills me with so many conflicting emotions. Most of them good. On the one Read More
Everything Old Is New Again
It shouldn’t surprise me but it always does. You write what you think is a new idea into a story only to find out someone Read More
Plant Monsters in the Comics II
If you missed the first crop… The comics grew out of the Pulps like a bud on a branch….plant metaphor enough for you? Still, it Read More
Fantasy Fiction: An Oasis of the Fifties
Fantasy Fiction was a Pulp magazine that ran for only four issues from March to November 1953. It was produced by Future Publications, the publisher Read More
Link: G. Peyton Wertenbaker, Science Fiction Pioneer
Early science fiction writers had it tough. Little or no pay and even if you succeeded, everybody thought you were nuts for writing “that junk.” Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 3
With six stories under his belt, Seabury Quinn settled in to write a long series and keep the pot boiling. One of his techniques that Read More