The Monsters of Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era”
Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era” is a wonderful adventure in the best of the Wonder Stories tradition. Wellsian in tone, we follow Stephen Conway to Read More
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The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories: 1929-1939
If you missed the Plant Monsters of Astounding… The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories (from 1929-1939) give us the story of two editors: T. O’Conor Read More
The Plant Monsters of Astounding
If you missed the Plant Monsters of Hugo Gernsback, go here… The Plant Monsters of Astounding continues our look at 1930s Science Fiction. Weird Tales Read More
Hugo Gernsback’s Plant Monsters
If you missed Plant Monsters in Weird Tales (now expanded) go here… Hugo Gernsback’s Plant Monsters begin even before Science Fiction had a name. He Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1939
If you missed the last one… 1939 saw a resurgence of fantastic material with very few gaps through the year. Because of this we don’t Read More
The Werewolves of ACE Comics
Recently I spoke of the werewolves in The Beyond, an Ace Comic. The other Horror and action comics of the Ace line also used werewolves. Read More
The Shadow of Fu Manchu in Weird Tales
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) created Fu Manchu in 1911, with the first section of the serial appearing in October 1912. “The Zayat Kiss” opens the novel Read More
Giant Spiders in the Pulps (Not Weird Tales)
Giant Spiders in the Pulps (Not Weird Tales) means we begin by saying what this piece is not about. Like the word “non-fiction”, we are Read More
Fritz Leiber in Weird Tales
Fritz Leiber’s appearances in Weird Tales are both surprising and disappointing. As an outer member of the Lovecraft Circle, it was only natural that Leiber Read More
Before Star Trek There Was Pulp!
Before Star Trek there was Pulp! Here are three dozen different ideas seen on Star Trek the original series, Star Trek The Next Generation and Read More