Matson Bell, The Ghost Cop
The career of a writer is usually driven by commercial success. What writer would choose to compose unsellable works if they knew they could sell Read More
Category: Occult Detectives
The Freelance Ghostbreaker: John Silence
The occult detective tradition has encompassed characters as famous as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Van Helsing. But the most influential fictional detective to take on Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Canadian Werewolves
Werewolves and snow go together like moonlight and blood. Those snowy climes were usually in the Hartz Mountains in Transylvania or the Scandinavia of Clemence Read More
Lin Carter’s Weird Tales
Every since 1954, people have been trying to resurrect Weird Tales as if it were an undead corpse in a tale by H. P. Lovecraft. 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
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
Who Reads This Doc Savage Stuff Anyway?
Everyone who comes to the Doc Savage books in their youth remembers that first “Doc” with a fondness that defies understanding. Once into later life, Read More
Dr. Styx – First Mythos Comic?
After yesterday’s post about early Marvel Mythos comics I remembered before any of those came along , there was another…. Old comics continue to surprise 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