Marvel Movie Preview #1
As the name suggests, Marvel Movie Preview #1 was the first Marvel magazine of its kind. This one-shot publication adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land Read More
Wells Reimagined
Hugo Gernsback had a vision. The first all-Science Fiction magazine. It took him several years but in April 1926 he unveiled Amazing Stories onto an Read More
Ray Harryhausen, Sword & Sorcery Filmmaker
If you know Fantasy films at all, you know Ray Harryhausen. As successor to Willis O’Brien, the creator of King Kong, Ray gave us so Read More
Weird Wednesdays: Malcolm M. Ferguson (1919-2011)
I began this piece with one goal in mind, to find a latter day Lovecraftian tribute, preferably one that others had missed. That’s not what Read More
The Original Conan Art
The original Conan by Robert E. Howard appeared largely in Weird Tales. Because of this, the artists of Weird Tales are intrinsically linked to the Read More
The Jungle Girl List
The Jungle Girl phenomenon pre-dates Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and Jane. W. H. Hudson’s novel Green Mansions (1904) featuring Rima the Jungle Girl, appeared eleven Read More
The Ghosts of an Antiquary
M. R. James (1862-1936) is in my mind the greatest of all the ghost story writers. Nobody else can deliver a true shudder of grim Read More
It’s Okay…I’m a Doctor!
The non-comic reading world got an introduction to mystical superheroes with Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Now part of the Infinity War movies, little Read More
William Hope Hodgson: The Bottleneck
Horror writers use many techniques to heighten the terror in their work. One of my favorites is the bottleneck. As with traffic jams, the bottleneck Read More
Jungle Jim
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More