The Earliest Plant Monsters
Stories of giant man-eating trees or blood-sucking vines have become part of the SF/F/H genres to the point where we don’t really think about their Read More
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The Psychic Doctors: The First Ghostbreakers
In the Middle Ages if one were assailed by the forces of the supernatural, help was as close as the nearest priest. In the 16th Read More
Thongor of Lemuria
Uninformed critics have written off the Thongor novels as a bad Conan the Barbarian copy. This really isn’t true. Thongor the character is very much Read More
The Fiction of A. Merritt: The Moon Pool
Abraham Merritt was not a full-time pulp-slinger like many of the greats. He wrote in the early days of the Pulps, like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Read More
The Legend of Tarzan: A Review
Reviewing a Tarzan movie is a difficult task. First off, they usually fall into two categories: low budget stinkers or big budget hits. Casper van Read More
Dr. Styx – First Mythos Comic?
After yesterday’s post about early Marvel Mythos comics I remembered before any of those came along , there was another…. Old comics continue to surprise Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: Marvel Style
Tales of the north as a sub-genre date back to the Franklin Expedition, then the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Northerns in Marvel Comics, those Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
The Science Fiction of Francis Flagg
Francis Flagg is not a name that falls from the lips when people talk about the early Science Fiction writers like E. E. Smith or Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 1
For many younger readers, their entry drug into the worlds of horror was the novels of Stephen King. For me that was not the case. Read More