Garnett Radcliffe in Weird Tales
Garnett Radcliffe (1898-1971) did seven stories for Weird Tales. These were all between 1951-1954, so in the declining years of the magazine. Radcliffe had an Read More
Category: Horror
More Golden Age Comics for Sword & Sorcery Fans
Sword & Sorcery comics were few and far between in the Golden Age. But they weren’t non-existent either. “Crom the Barbarian” by Gardner Fox, “The Read More
The Werewolves of ACE Comics
Recently I spoke of the werewolves in The Beyond, an Ace Comic. The other Horror and action comics of the Ace line also used werewolves. Read More
Gold Key Does Plant Monsters
Here’s how Gold Key does Plant Monsters in the Bronze Age. Most of these appeared in Boris Karloff’s horror comic but you can find others Read More
The Quintessential Monster Library
The Quintessential Monster Library might have an issue with our earlier Quintessential Ghost Story Library except it doesn’t really. The books and stories selected for Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Some Early Solitary Cases
Not all ghostbreakers have lengthy careers like Carnacki, Semi-Dual or Jules De Grandin. Often they are single event participants like the unnamed narrator in Bulwer-Lytton’s Read More
The Severed Hand in Comics II
If you missed the last one… The severed hand is one of horror’s classic monsters. Like most, it started in fiction before coming to comic Read More
The Ghost Story Anthologies of Dorothy Scarborough
A Scholar From Texas Dorothy Scarborough was born in Texas in 1878. She attended Baylor College then the University of Chicago before going onto Oxford. Read More
The Werewolves of The Beyond
The werewolves of Ace’s The Beyond are a mixed bag of hairy horrors. We get the traditional tale, usually attached to a love triangle. Occasionally Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Golden Age One-Pagers
The Strangest Northerns presents some short Golden Age one-pagers. When comic books needed to fill pages they would resort to quick tales done in a Read More