Cephalopods Attack!
H. P. Lovecraft certainly did his bit for promoting tentacles in horror fiction. But he wasn’t the first by any stretch of the imagination. M. Read More
Category: Movies
DC’s World of Silver Age Robots
DC Comics loved a good robot cover. There was usually one of two themes: either gigantic, killer machines or duplicitous copies that needed to be Read More
Seven More Voyages of Sinbad
In the last segment we focused on comics that were basically movie adaptations. Now we can leave Hollywood behind and look at seven other Sinbad Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Henry Beaugrand Style
“The Wer-Wolves” (1898) by Henry Beaugrand is not technically a Northern, in that it doesn’t take place in the Arctic, Labrador or the Klondike, traditional Read More
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
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
Bob Hope: Afraid of Ghosts?
Bob Hope made The Ghostbreakers in 1940 with Paulette Goddard. His comic book The Adventures of Bob Hope (that ran from February 1950 to February 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 Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
Man Versus Gorilla
For me, the battle between super man and super ape began with Tarzan of the Apes. In the book, Tarzan, just a lad, faces off Read More