More Cavemen & Dinosaurs
In my last post, I talked about Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) and how it used cavemen & Read More
In my last post, I talked about Nelson S. Bond’s “Exiles of the Dawn World” (Action Stories, December 1940) and how it used cavemen & Read More
Well, it’s Christmas morning and you are probably doing just about anything but reading this post. But hey, if you are here and you need Read More
The Monster Story has changed. As with all genres and sub-genres this happens over time. But the more they change, the more they stay the Read More
The name “Robbie” for a robot belongs to Isaac Asimov first. His story “Robbie” that was renamed “Strange Playfellow” by Fred Pohl when it appeared Read More
In Richard Dalby’s Dracula’s Brood, Rare Vampire Stories by Friends and Contemporaries of Bram Stoker (1987) he lists the nine stories that are so familiar, Read More
A new series of Hercules tales in 1997 could only mean Tor Books was willing to gamble on the popularity of another Hercules. Kevin Sorbo Read More
You’ve heard me complain in the past about how much I hate “The Guy in the Chair“. That character that exists largely to give the Read More
A few days ago I wrote about invisible monsters in Weird Tales. Little did I know that one of those tales was the basis of Read More
If you missed the last one… A couple of Golden Age pieces to conclude, before moving onto the much more mundane Silver Age and even Read More
DC Werewolves in the Bronze Age (not 3300 to 1200 BC but 1970 to 1986) reached a new pinnacle of style and thrills. Werewolves at Read More