Monster Genre III: A Ramble
Time is a fine polisher. Take for example Charles L. Grant’s words from 1983 and the Introduction to Shadows 6: “There are Critters and there Read More
Tag: John Carpenter
The Moonstone Legacy: A Gothic Trope
Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) has left Mystery and Horror fiction a legacy trope. This is the idea of the terrible revenge out of the Read More
The Time of Your Death
We are having the time of your death! Time has always been a focus for unusual tales, even before H. G. Wells’s masterpiece “The Time Read More
Mike Ploog at Warren
Before Mike Ploog made a supernatural splash at Marvel drawing The Monster of Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night, he drew four pieces for the horror Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Murderous Mimics
Youthful Comics published Beware #11 (August 1952) with “The Murderous Mimics”, a strange Northern. The story was written by an unknown author and drawn by Read More
The Terror Garden: The Growing Terror
The Terror Garden has looked at plant monsters in past posts. Today it is “The Growing Terror” from Suspense #19 (June 1952). (And as I Read More
Weird Tales’ Hidden Treasure: The Night Wire
The September 1926 issue of Weird Tales had a true gem of terror hidden among its pretty impressive contents: “Across Space” by Edmond Hamilton, “Ancient Read More
Link: Shoggoths Away!
If you watch horror or science fiction movies of any decade after the 1950s, you will see slime monsters: viscous jelly creatures that pour onto Read More
Link: Why Mythos Movies Suck (A Lot)
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More