The Runestone: Lesson Learned
A long time ago, back in the ancient days of video rental, I saw a movie that never made it into any theater I know Read More
Category: Horror
The Strangest Northerns: Dark Shadows Style
I can’t say I’ve even seen an episode of the original Dark Shadows, the soap opera that featured a truly Gothic line up with Jonathan Read More
Dark Shadows!
Horror comic covers can be quite explicit but the best often suggest rather than show the terror. One of the best techniques for this is Read More
Link: Shoggoths Away!
If you watch horror or science fiction movies of any decade after the 1950s, you will see slime monsters: viscous jelly creatures that pour onto Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Algernon Blackwood Style
There is probably no one more associated with the idea of a ghost story or horror tale set in the North than Algernon Blackwood. He Read More
Link: Father Brown Goes Mythos
Spoiler Alert: This column will reveal the solution to a famous Mystery story. If you haven’t read it (shame on you!), I apologize in advance. Read More
Weird Tales Covers That Weren’t
Dorothy McIlwraith (1891-1976) inherited Weird Tales in 1940 when Farnsworth Wright left and died shortly afterwards. McIlwraith was a graduate of McGill University in Ontario. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Style II
If you missed Part 1…. While I was doing ACG werewolves I came across more Northerns. Some are also werewolf stories so I will refer Read More
Link: Sing a Song of Tentacles: Mythos Poetry
H. P. Lovecraft and his two closest Mythos-writing friends, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, all wrote poetry. It’s what people who were born Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 5 (1953-1954)
If you missed Part Four ACG’s three horror main titles provide the last hooray of lycanthropic tales. Nothing really new here except a couple of Read More