Manly Wade Wellman Part 1 (1927-1940)
In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in Read More
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Link: Top Ten Mythos Tales Not By Lovecraft
This particular piece is highly subjective. I’m just going to say that now. We all like different things and my choices won’t be your choices. Read More
Link: When Planets Clashed: War in Space
Manly Wade Wellman continually surprises me. “When Planets Clashed,” his writing debut back in Wonder Stories Quarterly Spring 1931 is no exception. I expected a juvenile Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style
Fawcett Comics was the big rival for DC back in the 1940s. Science Fiction writers like Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester penned the craziest Read More
The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
Link: Manly Wade Wellman’s Lee Granger, Jungle King
Manly Wade Wellman has many feathers in his cap: famous Weird Tales writer, a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Edgar Award for True Crime, Read More
Link: When Elephants Rule the Earth
Manly Wade Wellman won himself a place in Fantasy history as the author of the Silver John stories that first appeared in Fantasy and Science Read More
Link: Hok the Mighty
Prehistoric fiction began almost as soon as Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. A lot of this early fiction seems silly in Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
Fantasy Tales: A Haven For Sword & Sorcery
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More