The Science Fiction of Francis Flagg
Francis Flagg is not a name that falls from the lips when people talk about the early Science Fiction writers like E. E. Smith or Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 1
For many younger readers, their entry drug into the worlds of horror was the novels of Stephen King. For me that was not the case. 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
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
Yuki-Onna, The Woman of the Snows
With the winter snows finally arriving, it seems natural to turn to Horror stories that concern the cold. I’ve already written about the traditional Canadian 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
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
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Eternal Lion
Frank Frazetta was the perfect artist to capture the danger and majesty of Burroughs’ lion creatures. An author can become identified with certain motifs. This Read More
De Camp & Carter: The Early Conan Pastiches
In 1966, Lancer Books began publishing their purple-edged paperbacks with Conan the Adventurer. This first volume contained only Robert E. Howard originals and one re-write Read More
The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was one of the great originators of Science Fiction. What he did not create himself, he used in new ways. He gave us Read More