Dream World: Science Fiction Turns on the Sleaze
Dream World was a short lived experiment in Science Fiction sleaze. The publisher was Ziff-Davis and the editor, Paul W. Fairman. Culling talent from their Read More
Tag: Richard Matheson
The Horror-Mystery Writers of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
The Horror-Mystery writers of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine are names that we all recognize. Some are big Mystery writers, some Horror, and all are of Read More
The Monster Story
Origins Originally I was going to start this with “The Monster Story begins with Frankenstein” but with a little more thought I realized something. It Read More
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
Link: Fear Factor: Using Childhood Fears in Mythos Fiction
Sometimes, the day job gives you pearls. I was sitting in a seminar on Childhood Anxiety when I realized I was looking at something important Read More
Too Late to the Party: Joseph Payne Brennan
Joseph Payne Brennan Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-1990) would become one of the preeminent horror short story writers of the 1960s and 1970s along with Basil Read More
The Science Fiction of Donald Duck
It can be fun to read comics that were written and drawn before you were even born. Take Dell Comics for instance. Began as a Read More
Link: Jeff Rice and Kolchak
Today is a good day to be a horror writer, whether in print or comics. If your work gets picked up by a cable network, Read More
The Monster Genre II
My obsession with monsters is well known. You can dribble on about H. G. Wells and Socialism, his work for Humankind until you’re blue in Read More
“The Tomb of Sarah” and Seabury Quinn
The Jules De Grandin stories by Seabury Quinn were not innovative so much as reactionary. Anyone familiar with the Horror and Mystery of the previous Read More