Clark Ashton Smith Comic Adaptations
The Clark Ashton Smith comic adaptations are peppered through out the decades, with the first of them being unofficial swipes first by EC Comics then Read More
Tag: Strange tales
The Sea Stories of Frank Belknap Long
The Sea Stories of Frank Belknap Long form a short phase at the beginning of his career when he wrote largely for Weird Tales. FBL Read More
The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror
The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror (2000) was Edmond Hamilton’s seventh collection. Like his first, it was intended to present Hamilton as horror Read More
The Strangest Northerns: When the Totem Walks!
“When the Totem Walks” is another chapter in the Terror of the Totem Poles. (If you missed the last one, go here.) Once again the Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Case of the Monkey Glands
The Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle might have been called “The Case of the Monkey Glands”. The Read More
Giant Ants in the Comics
Giant ants in the Comics are a given. The gigantic monsters appeared in the Pulps, so they have to be in the comic books as Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Dr. Muncing, Exorcist
Dr. Muncing, Exorcist was a ghostbreaker character from Strange Tales, one of Weird Tales biggest competitors. In the tradition of Jules de Grandin and other Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Out of the Storm
“Out of the Storm” appeared in Marvel’s Strange Tales #37 (August 1955). The author is not known but the art was done by Dick Ayers. Read More
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents
Snake gods and were-serpents are the rarest of creatures! Finding Pulp stories with snakes in them is not hard. Finding weird tales or even Science Read More
Plant Monsters of the Silver Age
Plant Monsters of the Silver Age grew in a different soil than their predecessors. Plant monsters in comics begin as far back as 1940 with Read More