The Ghostbreakers: More Famous Fakes
In our last post, “Three Famous Fakes” we featured Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen and Agatha Christie. This one offers three more ghosts that prove Read More
Tag: Jules de Grandin
Invisible Monsters in Weird Tales
Invisible monsters in Weird Tales would be a long list if I included every reference to “invisible bonds” or the feeling of being watched by Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Three Famous Fakes
Ghostbreaker tales don’t always play fair. Take these three famous fakes for instance. They appear to be tales of the occult, with ghosts and mediums, Read More
Weird Tales Day
Yesterday was Weird Tales Day. The one hundredth anniversary of the first issue of Weird Tales hitting the newsstands. The first Pulp magazine dedicated to Read More
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents II
Last year I wrote about “Snake Gods and Were-Serpents” with stories like Frank Belknap Long’s “The Were-Snake” and A. Merritt’s “The Snake Mother”. Turns out Read More
Druidic Magic in the Pulps
Druids in the Pulps are almost always bad guys. The mysterious nature of the druidic magic, like the Egyptian hieroglyphs, makes it a natural for Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1931
If you missed 1930…. Argosy in the 1930s had no problem with Science Fiction or Horror or more often “fake” Horror, where the truth proves Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Some Early Solitary Cases
Not all ghostbreakers have lengthy careers like Carnacki, Semi-Dual or Jules De Grandin. Often they are single event participants like the unnamed narrator in Bulwer-Lytton’s Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Case of the Monkey Glands
The Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle might have been called “The Case of the Monkey Glands”. The 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