Classic Interview: Jack Passarella
Jack Passarella is the author of three novels in the Buffy universe and the Wither series featuring Wendy Ward. His latest is Wither’s Rain. He Read More
Category: Mystery
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More
The Cases of Jules De Grandin – Part 5
Seabury Quinn was now getting a de Grandin story into every or every other issue of Weird Tales. For the Summer of 1927, each issue Read More
Pulp Cover Vampires
When people think of garish Horror and Suspense Pulp cover art they often arrive at the idea that there are many that have vampires on Read More
Fredric Brown’s The Ghost Breakers
Guess how excited I got when I stumbled across “The Ghost Breakers” by Fredric Brown in 5 Detective Novels (Summer 1952), a reprint Pulp. Originally Read More
Link: The Game’s Afoot: Mythos Mysteries
There is no requirement that a Mythos tale have a mystery in it, but the most successful often do. The main character of “The Call Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Terror at the Poles
The typical Northern is a tale of the Gold Rush of 1898 or the lumber camps of the 1910s or even the story of prairie Read More
Horror Magazine Illustrations & Covers
The artwork from Weird Tales was often as engrossing and unusual as the fiction it illustrated. Names like Virgil Finlay, Boris Dolgov, Lee Brown Coye, Read More
Link: The Great White Space: Adventure Mythos
Re-reading Cthulhu Mythos fiction is not something I am apt to do. After reading literally hundreds of stories, ranging from canon tales to fanzine pastiches, Read More