Welcome to the Portrait Gallery 3: 1964-1980
If you missed Part 1: 1948-1953 or Part 2: 1954-1963… Welcome back for our final visit to the Portrait Gallery. As the Silver Age moved Read More
Category: Gothic
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery 2: 1954-1963
If you missed 1948-1953… Welcome back to the Portrait Gallery. Horror comics love a good painting and these stories are no exception. As we transition Read More
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery: 1948-1953
Welcome to the Portrait Gallery… where terror hangs on the wall. Where art meets madness and talent is used for evil. The old Gothics and Read More
Bulwer-Lytton’s “The House and the Brain”
Bulwer-Lytton’s “The House and the Brain” also known as “The Haunters and the Haunted” appeared for the first time in Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1859. (Somehow Read More
Jamesian Complaint: My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure
A note on “My Aunt Margaret’s Adventure” led me in the past to say that M. R. James did not approve of ghostbreaker stories. This Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Horror of Studley Grange
“The Horror of Studley Grange” was one of a series from Stories From the Diary of a Doctor by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax. Read More
The Return of a Master: Lee Brown Coye
Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) made his debut on the covers of anthologies like Arkham House’s Sleep No More (1944) before moving onto the pages of Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style IV
If you missed the last one… “Diary of Doom” is a strange Northern that appeared in Adventures Into the Unknown #12 (August-September 1950). The author Read More
The Other Worlds: A Pulp Snapshot
The Other Worlds, an anthology by Phil Stong and Garden City Publishing, is a Pulp snapshot of the industry of fantastic literature before 1942. Where Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 6: The Winged Ape
If you missed last time…. Robert E. Howard liked ape monsters. He had Thak in our last entry from “Rogues in the House” as well Read More