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
Category: Ghost Stories
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
Link: Clifford Ball: Apprentice to a Fallen Master
The world of fantasy was shattered in 1936 when Robert E Howard put a gun to his head and ended it all. The fledgling genre Read More
Link: Damon Knight: Artist!
When you think of Damon Knight (1922-2002) you get a picture in your head of an old dude with a long, grey beard. Maybe you Read More
Link: Ghosts & Laughs: Comedians as Ghostbreakers
The idea of a ‘funny ghostbreaker’ begins not in a movie, but on the stage. Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Read More
The Scale of the Fantastic
The following is presented partly as an explanation of what I see as valid material for this blog. Do you think of Sherlock Holmes as Read More
Link: Adventures Into the Unknown World of Horror Comics
Frank Belknap Long had something his more famous friends never did: a long and varied career. Most famous today as HP Lovecraft’s closest friend, Long Read More
Fantastic Jungle Adventures
East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Read More