The Freelance Ghostbreaker: John Silence
The occult detective tradition has encompassed characters as famous as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Van Helsing. But the most influential fictional detective to take on Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Skywald Style
Skywald Publications was a rival of Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella that flourished for about four years in the early 1970s. It offered non-Comics Code violence Read More
Link: Wait Here While I Describe the Eldritch Horror: Weird Tales Radio?
You learn the strangest things when you read “The Eyrie,” the old letter column in Weird Tales. Like that a boyish Julius Schwartz was a Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery and J. R. R. Tolkien
In September 1937 an English Don named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien published a children’s book called The Hobbit. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Skywald
Skywald Publications was created by former Marvel Comics employee, Sol Brodsky – the Sky of the name, and Israel Waldman – the wald of the Read More
Jungleman, a Real Champ
“Jungleman” went through two distinctive phases, first with Champion Comics he was written by Worth B. Carnahan under the name Don Traver and was drawn Read More
Link: When Elephants Rule the Earth
Manly Wade Wellman won himself a place in Fantasy history as the author of the Silver John stories that first appeared in Fantasy and Science Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
A. Hyatt Verrill – Science Fiction Writer
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) is an unlikely early Science Fiction writer. He traveled throughout North and South America and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More