Link: The Robert Munsch Mythos
I am surprised by the universality of certain plots, not their details but their feel. Take, for instance, Robert Munsch’s The Dark (1979). (For those Read More
I am surprised by the universality of certain plots, not their details but their feel. Take, for instance, Robert Munsch’s The Dark (1979). (For those Read More
Howard Phillips Lovecraft began his horror classic, “The Call of Cthulhu” (Weird Tales, February 1928) with: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, Read More
The following is presented partly as an explanation of what I see as valid material for this blog. Do you think of Sherlock Holmes as Read More
Frank Belknap Long had something his more famous friends never did: a long and varied career. Most famous today as HP Lovecraft’s closest friend, Long Read More
The trail has been long, beginning in the 1863 with J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House By the Churchyard, leading us through the 1920s and Read More
I saw something that bothered me the other day. A professional writer whom I admire said something to the effect that Clark Ashton Smith was Read More
In my last column, I talked about how J. Sheridan Le Fanu influenced H.P. Lovecraft, even though he never read the Irish master’s many great Read More
H.P. Lovecraft was pretty thorough in his survey The Supernatural Horror in Literature, but he did not possess a crystal ball. He was limited to Read More
Solomon Kane is an iconic character. When Hugh Jackman plays a descendant of Abraham van Helsing, he looks like Kane. That austere warrior in the Read More
The Jules de Grandins, the Conans, the Edmond Hamilton blockbusters were always prominently placed at the beginning of any issue of Weird Tales. Lurking in Read More