Horror Versus Weird Menace: What Is the Difference?
I have been a fan of Horror fiction for most of my life. Even before I was a strong reader I liked Horror comics and Read More
Tag: Gothic Literature
The Strangest Northerns: Red Fox Style
Red Fox in “The Voice of the Petrel” (Manhunt #5, February 1948) is a strange Northern that was written by another Fox, Gardner F. Fox. Read More
Link: Gothic Gotham
In 1764, a bored English peer, no longer active in politics, builder of a fairy tale castle in the middle of Twickenham, came up with Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Two: Recycling the Mythos
In my last column, I talked about how J. Sheridan Le Fanu influenced H.P. Lovecraft, even though he never read the Irish master’s many great Read More
The False Monster Tradition
The notion that a monster should prove to be a fraud is a fairly recent idea. The warriors gathered around the scop reciting Beowulf would Read More