Link: Literary Slumming: August Derleth and Mark R. Schorer
It is easy for readers like myself to forget that Weird Tales writers and other pulpsters had literary ambitions. Dwelling in my fan-boy bubble, I Read More
Category: Science fiction
The Evolved Man of the Early Pulps
Science Fiction fans laugh (along with everybody else) when they watch Pinky and the Brain. But SF fans laugh just a little louder. The story Read More
The Land Unknown (1957)
The Land Unknown Trailer Director: Virgil W. VogelCast: Jock Mahoney and Shirley PattersonShawn SmithWilliam ReynoldsHenry BrandonDouglas KennedyPhil Harvey An expedition to the Antarctic discovers a Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Gold Key Style
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a successful television show by producer Irwin Allen (1916-1991). The show was based on a film of Read More
Link: The City of Spiders: H. Warner Munn’s Forgotten Classic
The early issues of Weird Tales are full of surprises. They leap out at you when you aren’t expecting them. The stories before 1935 are Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Four: With Trembling Pen in Hand…
The trail has been long, beginning in the 1863 with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House By the Churchyard, leading us through the 1920s and Read More
Link: A Bike on the Moon: The Science Fiction of Mickey Spillane
There was one job in comics that was lower than the guy who cleaned the ink pens. That poor fool was the one who had Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Three: Clark Ashton Smith, The Great Thing
I saw something that bothered me the other day. A professional writer whom I admire said something to the effect that Clark Ashton Smith was Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style II
“Mary Marvel’s Rescue at the North Pole” (Mary Marvel #5, September 1946) saw two brothers work together on this strange tale of the North Pole. Read More
Spear and Fang: A Prehistoric Premiere
“Spear and Fang” (Weird Tales, July 1925) was Robert E. Howard’s premiere as an author. He was only nineteen when it appeared in Weird Tales. Read More