Monsters Unleashed – Hidden Sword & Sorcery
Monsters Unleashed, the black-and-white magazine from Marvel was a trove of hidden Sword & Sorcery. The original goal of the 1973 publications Dracula Lives, Monster Read More
Giant and Killer Insects in the Pulps II
If you missed the last one…. Giant and Killer Insects in the Pulps are one of Clare Winger Harris’s classic Science Fiction themes from 1931. Read More
Weird Tales Radio II
If you missed the last one… Weird Tales Radio was an idea that Farnworth Wright floated back in 1933. It seems like a good one Read More
Link: Norvell W. Page: Wan Tengri – Prester John
While Fritz Leiber was creating a boisterous style of Sword & Sorcery based upon E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell, Norvell W. Page wrote Read More
Christmas Ghosts: E. F. Benson
The Christmas Ghosts of E. F. Benson are perhaps not as famous as M. R. James’. E. F. Benson was the middle child of the Read More
Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle
The Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle offer us a nice mix of supernatural and natural fiends and terrors. It is well known that Read More
The Illustrated Jack London
The name Jack London immediately conjures visions of the Klondike: dogsleds, gold mines and men and women trapped in the Darwinian struggle to survive against Read More
Link: L. Sprague de Camp 2: Hyborian Times
As mentioned in an earlier post, L. Sprague de Camp attempted to turn Sword & Sorcery down a logical, Science Fictional route (ala John W. Read More
Link: James Allison: Dreaming of the Past
Robert E. Howard produced several series: Solomon Kane, Kull of Valusia, Bran Mak Morn, and finally Conan the Cimmerian, all existing more or less in Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Gellett Burgess’s Ghost Extinguisher
I have never been quiet about how much I dislike humorous fantasy, and that includes funny ghost stories. “The Ghost Extinguisher” by Gellett Burgess (Cosmopolitan, Read More