The Terror Garden: Carl Jacobi Style
The Terror Garden has specimens by Carl Jacobi (1908-1997). They illustrate how long and productive Jacobi’s career was. Dating from 1932 to 1985, this Weird Read More
Category: Horror
To Kiss or Kill? The War on Sentiment
Unless you’ve read L. Sprague de Camp’s biography of H.P. Lovecraft or Sam Moskowitz’s Under the Moons of Mars (1970), you might not know that Read More
Link: Do You Believe in Ghosts?
“Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I’m afraid of them.” Thus is the modern attitude toward all things ghostly, as stated by the Marquise Read More
A Night in the Lonesome October: A Game
A Night in the Lonesome October is a 1993 novel by Roger Zelazny. Some Octobers I like to play a game with it. The book Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Icy Sea!
“Death and the Icy Sea!” is a short shock to fill out an issue of a 1950s comic book. This strange Northern makes me think Read More
The Weird War Tales of Alex Nino
The Weird War Tales of Alex Nino may seem like an odd choice of subject. Isn’t Alex Nino the artist who did all those mind-bending Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Northern Horror
Witchcraft #2 (May-June 1952) featured “The Northern Horror”, a comic written by an unknown author but drawn by A. Albert and Joe Kubert. Once again Read More
Canadian Weird Tales Writers
Canadian Weird Tales writers sounds like a very small group. Weren’t Pulp writers a bunch of hacks in crappy apartments in New York City? Their Read More
The Strangest Northerns: W. Victor Cook
“The Chateau Mirabelle” by W. Victor Cook appeared in the October 1909 issue of The Idler. This Northern is sub-titled “A French-Canadian Ghost Story”. The Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Strange Footprints
“Strange Footprints” is a Northern from Adventures Into Darkness #10 (June 1953), part of the Pines group. The author is not known but the artwork Read More