The Style of Sword & Sorcery
Victorian Medievalism The style of Sword & Sorcery was created by Robert E. Howard back in 1929. C. L. Moore amended this in 1934, as Read More
Category: Weird Tales
Henry Kuttner’s Fan Letters to Weird Tales
Henry Kuttner wrote fan letters to Weird Tales for eight years before he transitioned from fan to professional. Kuttner would sell his first story to Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Mark Shadow
Mark Shadow is the perfect name for an occult detective. You have probably never heard of him. He only appeared in four stories by a Read More
The Comics of Virgil Finlay – Part One
The comics of Virigil Finlay are few but showed possibilities. Pulp artists, such as Joseph Doolin, Harry Kiefer, Vincent Napoli, John Giunta, Harry Parkhurst and Read More
Look Into the Haunted Mirror
Look into the haunted mirror and what do you see? Here are ten different visions from the Golden Age of comics. Of course, the concept Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 9: The Crawler
If you missed the last one… The Crawler from “Red Nails” (Weird Tales, July August-September October1936) is a creepier addition to an already creepy story. Read More
Kenton of Star Patrol
If you missed the last one… “Kenton of Star Patrol” was a Space Opera comic created by John B. Michel and possibly continued by Gardner Read More
High Versus Low Fantasy or You Can’t Get There From Here!
High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy has always been a bit of gray area for me. I can remember submitting to Bardic Runes back in the Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: The Raider of the Spaceways
“The Raider of the Spaceways” is an odd debut in Science Fiction. It wasn’t Henry Kuttner’s first story (his nineteenth) but it was his first Read More
The Thongor Comics: Creatures on the Loose #29
If you missed the last one… Creatures on the Loose #29 (May 1974) was the final issue of Thongor;s adventures in Lemuria. Not surprisingly, it Read More