Cavemen (No Dinosaurs!)
In past posts I was largely interested in Cavemen & Dinosaurs (my phrase for the fantastic prehistoric, as best represented by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar Read More
Tag: Rudyard Kipling
Imperial Gothic: The Best Horror Stories of Rudyard Kipling
So Much More Than Just The Jungle Book Imperial Gothic could only mean The Best Horror Stories of Rudyard Kipling. The word ‘Kipling’ is enough Read More
More Horror Classics in Black & White
After the Edgar Allan Poe Post, I wanted to do More Horror Classics in Black & White. Warren and Skywald obliged nicely. Poe wasn’t the Read More
Atlantis: The Pulp Years – Part 1: 1910-1920s
Atlantis flourished during The Pulp Years, 1923-1954. In L. Sprague de Camp’s Lost Continents (1954) he discusses the romantic novels of the 1880-90s, then follows Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Gellett Burgess’s Ghost Extinguisher
I have never been quiet about how much I dislike humorous fantasy, and that includes funny ghost stories. “The Ghost Extinguisher” by Gellett Burgess (Cosmopolitan, Read More
Old Time Radio Ghost Stories
Here are more Old Time Radio Ghost Stories for your Yuletide pleasure. This time I stuck to actual radio performance (no readings). The stars are Read More
Werewolves in Black & White – Part 1
Werewolves in Black & White seems like the perfect way to follow our Conan Black & White series. Why? Because a good werewolf tale has Read More
The Angels of Mons
The Angels of Mons, despite denials by the author of “The Phantom Bowmen”, considered a real supernatural phenomenon by some even today. How could a Read More
The Big Five in the Comics
The Big Five The Big Five of the Storytellers were all authors of adventure fiction but they were also writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy or Read More
The Quintessential Online Fantasy Collection
The Quintessential Online Fantasy Collection seems like a logical choice to follow our Ghost Story resource. Fantasy fiction as we know it today really sprang Read More