The Ghostbreakers Before the Pulps
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Tag: Jessie Douglas Kerruish
Blithe Spirits
I recently watched Blithe Spirit (2020) and was struck by how much of the Ghost Story genre is actually in this comedy. The film version Read More
The Quintessential Monster Library
The Quintessential Monster Library might have an issue with our earlier Quintessential Ghost Story Library except it doesn’t really. The books and stories selected for Read More
Manly Wade Wellman’s Werewolves
Manly Wade Wellman wrote hundreds of fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters including werewolves. He wrote of them early in the pages of Weird Tales Read More
The Missing Miss Bartendale
The Missing Miss Bartendale of the 1942 film version of The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) is typical of the changing Read More
Clemence Housman’s “The Werewolf”
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