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
Category: Occult Detectives
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
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 2
Peter Haining (1940-2007) was one of a new breed of anthologists, one who made his living at anthologizing alone. Like Martin H. Greenberg in Science Read More
The Avon Fantasy Reader Covers – A Gallery
The Avon Fantasy Reader was an important Pulp reprint anthology (taking its contents from Weird Tales, Thrilling Wonder, The Blue Book, Adventure and Wonder Stories) Read More
Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
The Christmas Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Just the name Charles Dickens is enough to fill the ghost-story reader with images of snowy Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens, through his novel A Read More
Jules de Grandin, Pulp Superstar Part 2
This one is just too big for Word Press so here the rest… 41. “Stealthy Death”(November 1930) 42. “The Wolf of St. Bonnot”(December 1930) 43. Read More
Jules de Grandin, Pulp Superstar
Who was the most popular author of Weird Tales in its four decades in publication, from 1923 to 1954 ? H. P. Lovecraft, the creator Read More