Original Ghosts (and Their Pictures)
It’s October (and Friday the 13th!) and spook season is upon us! All those creepy collections you like to drag out this time of year, Read More
Category: H. G. Wells
Miles Breuer, Noble Amateur
Miles J. Breuer, M. D. (1889-1945) was an early Science Fiction writer as well as a doctor from Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a acolyte of Read More
First Issues: Amazing Stories, April 1926
Amazing Stories, April 1926 is the first in a series of posts that look at the first issues of famous Science Fiction magazines. Where else Read More
The Early Jack Williamson: 1928-1933
Jack Williamson might be the longest working Pulp SF writer in history, writing from 1928 (“The Metal Man”, Amazing Stories, December 1928) to The Stonehenge Read More
Invisible Monsters in Weird Tales
Invisible monsters in Weird Tales would be a long list if I included every reference to “invisible bonds” or the feeling of being watched by Read More
Winged Humans
If you missed the last one… The idea that people will encounter aliens out in space that have wings is an obvious Christian-based concept. In Read More
The Lost Cities of Mars
If you missed the last one… I am currently reading Lin Carter’s The Man Who Loved Mars (1973). It features Ilionis, “…the long-lost and extremely Read More
The Aliens of Gerry Carlyle, Interplanetary Huntress
Gerry Carlyle is a famous SF character created by Arthur K. Barnes. In the best “Bring’em Back Alive” tradition, she is the Interplanetary Huntress who Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1950s
If you missed the 1940s… With the Plant Monsters of the 1950s we see the last of the Pulps and the transition to digest-sized SF. Read More
Lovecraftian Elements in Sword & Sorcery
The Lovecraftian elements in Sword & Sorcery often make it or break it for me. I love that blend of energy that H. P. Lovecraft Read More