The Valley Was Still – Low Lying Places in Weird Tales
“The Valley Was Still” is a classic tale by Manly Wade Wellman from Weird Tales. It was filmed as “Still Valley” for Twilight Zone, shown Read More
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The Lost World in Comics I
In a previous post I wrote about a seven page story, “Creatures of Fantasy”, that jammed Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Vines & Other Horrors
If you missed the last one… Vine & Other Horrors covers a lot of ground (no pun intended). We have killer vines, of course, but Read More
Beowulf Comics: DC’s Dragonslayer #3 – August-September 1975
If you missed the last one… Beowulf Dragonslayer #3 (August-September 1975) features a classic Robert E. Howard inspired encounter: barbarian versus giant snake. In fact, Read More
Llana of Gathol: Part 1 “The City of the Mummies”
“The City of the Mummies” in Llana of Gathol (1948) proves it was not a novel so much as a series of stories combined to Read More
John W. Jakes – Part 3: Bestselling Author
If you missed Part 2…. John Jakes finished the 1960s writing television tie-ins along with other paperbacks. The first collections of Brak appeared alongside his Read More
The Dark Mirror of Klarn – Part 1
The Dark Mirror of Klarn proves the smallest seeds can become a forest. Doug Moench would create a vast fantasy world (one largely under-used by Read More
The Thongor Comics: Creatures on the Loose #22
Creatures on the Loose #22 (March 1973) was a good example of Marvel Comics experimenting with other Sword & Sorcery characters besides Conan. COTL was Read More
The Big Five in the Comics
The Big Five The Big Five of the Storytellers were all authors of adventure fiction but they were also writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Read More
Undead and Unleashed!
Undead and Unleashed! Marvel in the Bronze Age gathered the undead and unliving monsters of Robert E. Howard (and pastichers like L. Sprague de Camp Read More