The Strangest Northerns: Red Fox Style
Red Fox in “The Voice of the Petrel” (Manhunt #5, February 1948) is a strange Northern that was written by another Fox, Gardner F. Fox. Read More
Red Fox in “The Voice of the Petrel” (Manhunt #5, February 1948) is a strange Northern that was written by another Fox, Gardner F. Fox. Read More
Werewolves have been around since humans kept livestock, perhaps even longer. After centuries of werewolf lore, most readers think they know all there is to Read More
10. Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist started out as the idea for a ghostbreaker novel: “I set out to write a supernatural detective story…” Blatty said. Read More
Bob Hope made The Ghostbreakers in 1940 with Paulette Goddard. His comic book The Adventures of Bob Hope (that ran from February 1950 to February Read More
G. W. Thomas: Who do you consider the first Ghostbreaker? Christopher Lyons: Bill Murray? But seriously, folks. Samuel Warren began to lay down some of Read More
H. P. Lovecraft pokes fun at a Monster Writer’s Dilemma in his short horror tale, “The Unnameable”. He begins it this way: We were sitting Read More
The idea of a ‘funny ghostbreaker’ begins not in a movie, but on the stage. Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Read More
A new comic book called Arcane Secrets by Angel A. Svoboda (Amigo Comics) got me thinking that there aren’t many Lovecraftian comedies out there. In Read More
The notion that a monster should prove to be a fraud is a fairly recent idea. The warriors gathered around the scop reciting Beowulf would Read More