Link: The Two-(or More) Headed Mythos Monster: Collaboration
In 1934, H.P. Lovecraft and his friend Robert H. Barlow poked fun at all their friends and acquaintances in a story called “The Battle That Read More
Tag: Frank Belknap Long
“The Jungle Scientist” by Frank Belknap Long
Congo Bill had his chance to meet killer trees in1931. Horror writer, Frank Belknap Long, worked in comics in the 1940s. His scripting for Adventures Read More
Look Who’s in Thrilling Mystery
Thrilling Mystery was one of Leo Marguiles’ Pulps for Beacon Magazines. It ran from October 1935 to Summer 1944 (when it changed to Thrilling Mystery Read More
The Strangest Northerns: ACG Werewolf Style
These are not new to anyone who has read my ACG Werewolves thread. But if you’d only like to see the Northerns, here they are Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 1 (1948-1951)
American Comics Group had five horror titles including Adventures Into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds, Out of the Night, The Skeleton Hand and The Clutching Hand. Read More
How To Become a Mythos Icon
Doing some research for this blog I was struck by a fact — if you want your Mythos baddie to become iconic, to have thousands Read More
Astro-Adventures: A Blaster from the Past
The 1980s saw the pinnacle of small press magazines that began back in the 1930s as fanzines and improved over the decades as copying technology Read More
Link: Four-Color Sci-Fi: Science Fiction Writers Who Wrote Comics
When radio became big across America in the late 1920s, there were those who worried it would kill pulp magazines. The magazines quickly adapted though Read More
Link: Fun in the Fourth Dimension
In 1895, H.G. Wells began his classic first masterpiece The Time Machine with a short lecture on the fourth dimension: Time. Clumsy as this was Read More
Link: Clifford D. Simak: The Beginnings of a Master
Clifford D Simak (1904-1988) had a writing career that ran for fifty-five years. He was one of the early SF writers who could adapt to Read More