Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mahar Gallery
J. Allen St. John was the first person to draw a Mahar. The original All-Story publication did not feature one of these conniving female-only rhamphoryncuses Read More
C. Hall Thompson: Lost Mythos Opportunities
August Derleth’s choices in the 1940s have come under criticism in recent years. Was he the man who saved Lovecraft? Or was he a petty Read More
The Christmas Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Just the name Charles Dickens is enough to fill the ghost-story reader with images of snowy Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens, through his novel A Read More
The Case of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849) is the father of the mystery story, the inventor of psychological horror, and an early writer of science fiction. His works Read More
Reptisaurus the Terrible
Reptilicus (1961) had a weird dual quality that followed it from the silver screen to the comic book pages. The initial film was shot in Read More
Mike Kaluta’s Conan
I love when interesting artists take on Robert E. Howard’s most famous swordsman. This isn’t a slight on John Buscema/Ernie Chan/Tony DeZuniga/Alfred Alcala. I love Read More
Jules de Grandin, Pulp Superstar Part 2
This one is just too big for Word Press so here the rest… 41. “Stealthy Death”(November 1930) 42. “The Wolf of St. Bonnot”(December 1930) 43. Read More
Jules de Grandin, Pulp Superstar
Who was the most popular author of Weird Tales in its four decades in publication, from 1923 to 1954 ? H. P. Lovecraft, the creator Read More
Of Footprints and Fearsome Beasts: The Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Media
To begin with this piece is going to look at Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch stories in as many mediums as we can squeeze into such Read More
Classic Interview: Jessica Amanda Salmonson
“I have high expectations of heroic fantasy. I don’t believe it has to be the endless barrage of hastily written imitations whose themes, characters, plots, Read More