December’s Shivery Hand Upon Us II
Two years ago I suggested some different ghost story collections for your Christmas reading pleasure. I won’t go into how Christmas used to be the Read More
Two years ago I suggested some different ghost story collections for your Christmas reading pleasure. I won’t go into how Christmas used to be the Read More
Victorian Medievalism The style of Sword & Sorcery was created by Robert E. Howard back in 1929. C. L. Moore amended this in 1934, as Read More
The Quintessential Online Fantasy Collection seems like a logical choice to follow our Ghost Story resource. Fantasy fiction as we know it today really sprang Read More
This piece is called “The Philosophy of Fantasy: A Ramble” because that is exactly what it is. I start here and I ramble on to Read More
“The Sapphire Siren” was an unusual tale from an author with an equally odd name, Nyctzin Dyalhis. The story appeared in Weird Tales, February 1934 Read More
A key work in the history of the Victorian werewolf is “The Werewolf” by Captain Frederick Marryat, also known as “The White Wolf of the Read More
Late in the summer of 1968 the publishing team of Betty and Ian Ballantine recognized that the success of their edition of J. R. R. Read More
The Victorians produced many tales of werewolves but few have the impact of Clemence Housman’s “The Werewolf”. Partly because of her abilities as a writer, Read More
As I sat watching the last of The Hobbit trilogy of films I realized something. We take so much for granted in the 21st Century. Read More
The werewolf of the last 100 years is largely the product of Hollywood. The first big werewolf film was The Werewolf Of London (1935) starring Read More