The Ghostbreakers: The Attleborough Poltergeist
“The Attleborough Poltergeist” is a ghostbreaking tale from Science fiction writer, Richard Cowper. It appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1980. Cowper often appeared Read More
Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli
Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli is a very different thing than Walt Disney’s. I love that old cartoon but when I finally read the original stories as Read More
The Ruum Stories of Arthur Porges
The Short Story Man Arthur Porges (1915-2006) is perhaps best remembered for the story “The Ruum” (Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1953) This is an Read More
Favorite Sword & Sorcery From Epic Illustrated
Here are my favorite Sword & Sorcery comics from Marvel’s Epic Illustrated. The full-sized magazine ran for 34 issues from Spring 1980 to February 1986. Read More
Micro-Fiction: It’s All About the Title
What is your title?–Pericles I never knew that when I wrote “Writing Flash Fiction” for Fiction Factor that it would become something of a standard Read More
Johnny Peril, Occult Adventurer
Howard Purcell (1918-1981) created Johnny Peril almost by accident. “Just a Story” was a strip that had no real continuing character until Johnny stumbled along. Read More
Dark Worlds Podcast: Joel Jenkins
The Dark Worlds Podcast is live and this month we interview Joel Jenkins Joel Jenkins is an extraordinarily prolific and an extraordinarily disciplined pulp writer. Read More
The Strangest Northerns: A Relic of the Pleistocene
“A Relic of the Pleistocene” (Collier’s Weekly, January 12, 1901) by Jack London is an odd tale of the Northern trails. Inspired by the discovery Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Menace of Mastodon Valley
“The Menace of Mastodon Valley” by Kenneth Gilbert (1889-1973) is one of the strangest Northerns I have ever read. Gilbert is best remembered as a Read More
The Curse of the Bulaga
“The Curse of the Bulaga” is a strange Southern (a tale of the South Pole as opposed to a Northern) that appeared in Avon’s Eerie Read More