Sonnets of the Midnight Hours by Donald Wandrei
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours by Donald Wandrei is one of the reasons I love the old Farnsworth Wright Weird Tales. Poetry in Weird Tales Read More
Strangest Northerns: Porky Pig Style
Last time, we saw Porky and Bugs find a city of gold in Alaska in a traditional Northern. But not all Northerns were gold mines Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Wendy Pini (1951-)
Wendy Pini got her start doing covers for SF digests like Galileo and Galaxy. She also made a splash in 1973 dressing up as Red Read More
Strange Northerns: Bugs Bunny Style
Even Bugs and Porky enjoyed a good Northern once. “Bugs Bunny Finds the Frozen Kingdom” was written by an unknown author and drawn by Tom Read More
The Disasters of Science Fiction: A Gallery
Catastrophe! Science Fiction has done a good many stories about death and destruction. H. G. Wells helped popularized this idea with his The War of Read More
The Northern
I’ve been doing a series on “Strange Northerns” because I enjoy supernatural tales set in my home country of Canada. This has led to people Read More
Joseph Doolin: Jungle Cover Artist
Joseph Doolin (1896-1967) is my favorite Weird Tales artist if you are talking realistic style. I love Lee Brown Coye, Boris Dolgov, Hannes Bok, Virgil Read More
Alexander Blade: Invisible Author
Alexander Blade! The name explodes with excitement. Now imagine a writer who has produced stories for decades, appeared in different magazines, even different kinds of Read More
A. W. Bernal: The Man Who Was Two Men
For A. W. Bernal, fame was localized. What I mean is for a short time, to a small audience he was very famous but after Read More
Link: Cover Art: Branding Your Mythos
H.P. Lovecraft is often touted as one of the Big Three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. He was Read More