The Gothic Heritage of the Ghostbreaker
The word “Gothic” is open to much misinterpretation these days. Most people associate it with a certain lifestyle that requires black clothing and white make-up. Read More
Category: Weird Tales
Werewolves of the Golden Age: 1950-1952
If you missed the last one… The opening years of the 1950s did not feature any new werewolf movie classics. This gap allowed the comics Read More
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
The Robots of Strange Adventures
If you missed the last one… Strange Adventures was a DC Science Fiction anthology comic that ran from August-September 1950 to October-November 1973 and two Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: The World With a Thousand Moons
If you missed the last one…. Last time we looked at an unusual tale from Henry Kuttner who didn’t write many space operas. This time Read More
Days of the Triffids
John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (aka “Revolt of the Triffids”) was a watershed moment in Science Fiction as well as in the career Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More
The Terror Garden: The Orchid of Asia
The Terror Garden has many orchids in it. Stories like “The Orchid Terror” from 1911 are typical as it that classic “The Purple Terror” (1899) Read More
The Ghostbreakers: More Famous Fakes
In our last post, “Three Famous Fakes” we featured Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen and Agatha Christie. This one offers three more ghosts that prove Read More