Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Fight Scenes by Ray Harryhausen
Heroic Fantasy needs two things: Monsters and a good fight scene. Imagine Conan winning in a story by political debate. Or the Witcher settling a Read More
Category: Movies
Weird Tales TV: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
If you missed the last one… “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (Weird Tales, July 1943, also in The Mystery Companion, 1943)Â is in some ways Read More
Bronze Age Robots! 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s saw the fruits of Star Wars‘ labor come to harvest. Science Fiction, especially featuring robots, was big Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Extra Passenger
If you missed the last one… We continue out look at Weird Tales stories that made it onto television with another episode of Boris Karloff’s Read More
Lords (And Ladies) of the Dino-Jungle
Stories about people finding dinosaurs hiding in strange places go back to Victorian times. As our knowledge of prehistoric life grew, so did our fantasies Read More
The Gothic Heritage of the Ghostbreaker
The word “Gothic” is open to much misinterpretation these days. Most people associate it with a certain lifestyle that requires black clothing and white make-up. Read More
Werewolves of the Golden Age: 1930-1940s
We’ve done werewolves before. But it felt right to go back to the beginning and see what we had missed. Because we have done them Read More
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Comic Ads
It’s not hard for some us to remember Dungeons & Dragons (we never used the “Advanced” much. We just called it “Dee-N-Dee”) back in the Read More
Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age of lost cities is really a time of specialists. Tarzan at DC or Marvel finds one Read More
The Robots of Strange Adventures
If you missed the last one… Strange Adventures was a DC Science Fiction anthology comic that ran from August-September 1950 to October-November 1973 and two Read More