Link: The Eyes of the Panther: A Weird Tales Mystery
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
Tag: Cthulhu Mythos
Link: Sword of Cthulhu
Robert E. Howard wrote some Cthulhu Mythos stories, though most are admittedly minor ones. His Serpent Men were coopted into the cycle by H. P. Read More
Link: The Handy-Dandy Mythos Plot Structure
It would be ridiculous to suggest that all Mythos stories have the same plot. As more and more tales are spun, this becomes less and Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Clark Ashton Smith
Sword & Sorcery as an idea never existed back in 1936. I chose that date because it was the year Robert E. Howard killed himself. Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
Link: Yuggoth, Our Ninth Planet
One of the best parts about reading older fiction – say, the detective fiction of the 1880s or the pulp stories of the 1920s – Read More
My Cthulhu Story
Back in the 1980s I was obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft. I was also a cartoonist. That’s a bad combo. Thus…. Copyright G. W. Thomas 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
Of Footprints and Fearsome Beasts: The Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Media
To begin with this piece is going to look at Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch stories in as many mediums as we can squeeze into such Read More
The Ghostbreakers Mythos
Lovecraft’s circle shared mention of their separate creations in the pages of Weird Tales, name-dropping here and there a friend’s character or some other reference. Read More