Sam Moskowitz’s “Uncrowned Masters” (1940)
Sam Moskowitz’s “Uncrowned Masters” (1940) appeared in Fantascience Digest #12 (January-February 1940), so exactly eighty-one years ago. Moskowitz was twenty years old when he wrote Read More
Victor de la Fuente’s Haxtur
Victor de la Fuente’s “Haxtur” originally appeared in the Spanish anthology comic, Trinca in the early 1970s. The stories were reprinted in English for a Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Stanley Waterloo
Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was an American writer of note, largely for the novel The Story of Ab (1897), a prehistoric journal of a young man’s Read More
Some Odd 1960s Sword & Sorcery Comics
Some odd 1960s Sword & Sorcery comics are the remainders after you take away the big players. This decade produced more Sword & Sorcery than Read More
The Strangest Science Fiction Titles
Science Fiction has an advantage when it comes to titles. You can make them as crazy as you like and editors probably won’t complain. Despite Read More
The Fantasy Vampires of Clark Ashton Smith
The vampires of Clark Ashton Smith are something different in the pages of Weird Tales. “The Unique Magazine” had plenty of tales of the undead. Read More
The Golden Age of the Dragon: B&W Illos
Last time we looked at the Golden Age of the dragon in color. The black & white illustrations that filled the regular pages offer many Read More
The Golden Age of the Dragon: Color Plates
The Golden Age of the Dragon saddles the Victorian and Edwardian ages. Artists like Arthur Rackham, Frank C. Pape, Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Maxfield Parrish Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 4: Thog the Slithering Shadow
In case you missed the last monster…. Thog the Slithering Shadow is without doubt the most Lovecraftian of all Robert E. Howard’s monsters. Formless, tentacled, Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Out of the Storm
“Out of the Storm” appeared in Marvel’s Strange Tales #37 (August 1955). The author is not known but the art was done by Dick Ayers. Read More