Weird Tales TV: The Devil’s Ticket
If you missed the last one… “The Devil’s Ticket” (Weird Tales, September 1944) is that dusty old chestnut, a Deal-With-the-Devil tale. Robert Bloch gives it Read More
Tag: Robert Bloch
Weird Tales TV: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
If you missed the last one… “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (Weird Tales, July 1943, also in The Mystery Companion, 1943)Â is in some ways Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Extra Passenger
If you missed the last one… We continue out look at Weird Tales stories that made it onto television with another episode of Boris Karloff’s Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Cheaters
Weird Tales Weird Tales published literally hundreds of stories over its original thirty-one year run. It should be no surprise that some of these stories Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
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
Winged Humans
If you missed the last one… The idea that people will encounter aliens out in space that have wings is an obvious Christian-based concept. In Read More
The Dead Planet
If you missed the last one… Our survey of old Science Fiction themes continuous with the Dead Planet. This idea is a world that was Read More
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
The Lovecraftian Tom Sutton at Charlton
Tom Sutton has great range from space heroes to terror tales. His most Lovecraftian examples of his great Horror art came in the early to Read More