Lin Carter’s Weird Tales
Every since 1954, people have been trying to resurrect Weird Tales as if it were an undead corpse in a tale by H. P. Lovecraft. Read More
Category: Horror Fiction
The Monster Genre II
My obsession with monsters is well known. You can dribble on about H. G. Wells and Socialism, his work for Humankind until you’re blue in Read More
The Furies & Other Killer Bees
Sometimes cover art haunts me. The image of a large wasp attacking a human stayed with me for decades even though I never had a Read More
Something in the Blood: A Classic Interview with Margaret L. Carter
Margaret L. Carter is the author of the Vanishing Breed series of vampire novels. At the time of this interview the series was underway. Today Read More
Guy de Maupassant Comics in the Golden and Silver Age
Guy de Maupassant is a master of the short story. He wrote several Horror story classics as well including his masterpiece, “The Horla” (1881). These Read More
The Earliest Plant Monsters
Stories of giant man-eating trees or blood-sucking vines have become part of the SF/F/H genres to the point where we don’t really think about their Read More
The Psychic Doctors: The First Ghostbreakers
In the Middle Ages if one were assailed by the forces of the supernatural, help was as close as the nearest priest. In the 16th Read More
The Fiction of A. Merritt: The Moon Pool
Abraham Merritt was not a full-time pulp-slinger like many of the greats. He wrote in the early days of the Pulps, like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Read More
Fantasy Tales: A Haven For Sword & Sorcery
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More
Early Marvel Mythos
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More