Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol
Nan Matol is special to the Cthulhu Mythos. This ruined city in the Western Pacific, resting on the largest of the Caroline Islands, is a Read More
Category: Horror
Neils Orson the Ghost Hunter
The 1930’s was the last great period of Spiritualism in Britain and America. Houdini and other defrauders were busy debunking the phonies and relegating the Read More
The Day of the Animals: Nature Horror of the 1970s
I’d love to tell you that Arthur Machen’s horror classic, The Terror (1917) was responsible for all those “Killer” movies of the 1970s. I’d love Read More
Naked Jungle: Leiningen Versus the Ants
Stephenson’s classic adventure tale of a man fighting an army of ants was required reading in high school for years. It is an example of Read More
The Curse of Jules de Grandin: Pierre d’Artois
The Curse of Jules de Grandin haunted one man: E. Hoffman Price (1898-1988) and his creation, Pierre d”Artois. The success of a character in a Read More
Some Odd Werewolves
Werewolves have been around since humans kept livestock, perhaps even longer. After centuries of werewolf lore, most readers think they know all there is to Read More
The James Gang: Ghost Story Writers
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is in my opinion the greatest of all the ghost story writers. The Cambridge don began a tradition of writing a Read More
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters
The creation of the new sub-genre of Weird Westerns is not a recent thing. The first Western is considered to be Owen Wister’s The Virginian Read More
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’s Strange Adventure
A Century of Hyde The duality of the human spirit has been one of literature’s greatest themes since the time of the Greek myths. Man Read More
Favorite Frankenstein Covers 1945-2015
If you subscribe to this blog, you will have received a crappy version of this piece. My Yoast Plugin ate it before it went out Read More