Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
Spoiler Alert: This column will reveal the solution to a famous Mystery story. If you haven’t read it (shame on you!), I apologize in advance. Read More
H. P. Lovecraft and his two closest Mythos-writing friends, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, all wrote poetry. It’s what people who were born Read More
H. P. Lovecraft did not invent the idea of the arcane tome, one so evil its very existence meant insanity and worse for its possessor. Read More
To a fan of Weird Tales Anthony M. Rud is the guy who kicked it all off. He wrote the lead story “Ooze” in the Read More
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More