Link: Blue Pencils and Bloody Swords: Editors of S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
The Terror of Blue John Gap
“The Terror of Blue John Gap” by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Strand, August 1910) is a personal favorite of mine, along with C. J. Cutcliffe Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 6
Seabury Quinn is now grinding the Jules de Grandin tales out at a quick pace but despite that these are the best of the tales. Read More
Swords of Mars: A Gallery
Edgar Rice Burroughs remains a popular author after a hundred years for many good reasons. First off, is the sheer imagination of his storytelling. This Read More
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
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return 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
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More