Haunted! Part 1!
Haunted houses are a traditional setting for certain types of Halloween stories. The old abandoned building that remembers terrible deeds committed there works both as Read More
Tag: Dark Mysteries
Tomes of Evil in Golden Age Comics
If you missed the last one… I wrote about the Tomes of Evil in Pulps but I also wrote about “The Black Arts” (Weird Fantasy Read More
The Ghoul Gallery – A Golden Age Gathering
I stole the title of Hugh B. Cave’s “The Ghoul Gallery” (Weird Tales, June 1932) because it makes my point nicely. The story is about Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Flowers
I have been wanting to reorganize my plant monsters from the Golden Age of Comics for a while. So what you will see is partly Read More
One-Shot Occult Detectives
One-shot occult detectives are more common than you know. The early comics all had to have one. After Siegel & Shuster created Dr. Occult, they Read More