Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
Tag: Henry Kuttner
Adventures in Time and Space
Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas are credited with editing and publishing the first major Science Fiction anthology, a volume that said to the Read More
Link: Blue Pencils and Bloody Swords: Editors of S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for Read More
Web Pulp: Putting Weird Tales in Perspective
Weird Tales stands tall as the original source of the superstars of Fantasy in the decades following the World War I. Robert E. Howard and 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
Vaseleos Garson: Planet Stories’ Masked Man
Planet Stories was a quarterly Pulp that ran from 1939 to 1955, delivering action-oriented space opera. While to some this is trash, it was the Read More
Clayton’s Jungle Stories: The Creeping Terror
Jungle Stories is usually thought of as a Fiction House pulp from 1938, running alongside Planet Stories, Indian Stories and North-West Stories. But there was 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: Clifford Ball: Apprentice to a Fallen Master
The world of fantasy was shattered in 1936 when Robert E Howard put a gun to his head and ended it all. The fledgling genre Read More
Link: The Graveyard Rats: Kuttner Komics
“The Graveyard Rats” (Weird Tales, March 1936) by Henry Kuttner was a spectacular debut for a writer of horror. Though in later years Kuttner seemed Read More