Mad Scientists, A Criteria
Mad scientists got their big start with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) though the wicked or foolish creator can be found in myth and legend. The Read More
Tag: Mary Shelley
Science Fiction Across the Genres
Science Fiction runs the gamut as it burns across the genres. You might think an SF story has to be robots, spaceships, time travel or Read More
A Night in the Lonesome October: A Game
A Night in the Lonesome October is a 1993 novel by Roger Zelazny. Some Octobers I like to play a game with it. The book Read More
The Gothic in Sword & Sorcery
Pulp Origins Sword & Sorcery, from its very first story in 1929 was steeped in the Gothic. Robert E. Howard published “The Shadow Kingdom” in Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Mike Kaluta’s Frankenstein
Mike Kaluta’s Frankenstein predates the much more famous version by Berni Wrightson. Kaluta and Wrightson were old friends from their “The Studio” days. Wrightson’s artwork Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Moonstone Mass
“The Moonstone Mass” by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) appeared in Harper’s, October 1868. Being such an old story it can be a bit of a Read More
Favorite Frankenstein Covers 1945-2015
If you subscribe to this blog, you will have received a crappy version of this piece. My Yoast Plugin ate it before it went out Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Franken-Style
Today Strangest Northerns gives you thrills Franken-style. The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) ends in the Arctic with Victor chasing his terrible creation over Read More
I Steal Your Blood! Doctors of Horror!
One of the standard scenarios in Pulp horror magazines is the person stuck in a Gothic house, that either through tricks or merely atmosphere, seems Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Terror at the Poles
The typical Northern is a tale of the Gold Rush of 1898 or the lumber camps of the 1910s or even the story of prairie Read More