Link: Wait Here While I Describe the Eldritch Horror: Weird Tales Radio?
You learn the strangest things when you read “The Eyrie,” the old letter column in Weird Tales. Like that a boyish Julius Schwartz was a Read More
Category: Mystery
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Mystery Challenge
Isaac Asimov is well known to both Science Fiction fans and Mystery readers. In the 1970s, Ike wrote a straight Mystery series for Ellery Queen Read More
Link: While You Wait (for Superman) Classics: Dr. Occult
In 1935, while waiting to sell Superman to the comic strip syndicates, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created other comics to sell to the fledgling Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
Good Guys & Better Coffee
The old Pulp magazines offered everything from a gritty back street world of violence to the unimaginable planets of the far stars. Pulp fiction was Read More
The Psychic Doctors: The First Ghostbreakers
In the Middle Ages if one were assailed by the forces of the supernatural, help was as close as the nearest priest. In the 16th Read More
Leigh Brackett – Queen of Mystery
To Science Fiction fans, the name Leigh Brackett is heard with the sound of the blaster or the hum of an energy sword in the Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
Serpents of the Air
Technology can date a story faster than Captain Kirk can hook up with a Venusian barmaid. One day the story is plausible, the next… A Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Windigo
One of the things you do as you get older is peek backwards at the things you held dear when you were a kid. Sometimes Read More