The Monsters of Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era”
Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era” is a wonderful adventure in the best of the Wonder Stories tradition. Wellsian in tone, we follow Stephen Conway to Read More
Tag: The Whisperer in Darkness
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
Spock’s Brain and Other Missing Cerebrum
Brain-stealers! As a kid, I can recall the sheer terror of Doctor McCoy saying to Captain Kirk: “His brain is gone.” Aliens have stolen Mr. Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
Link: Creepy Cryptids
H. P. Lovecraft died before the age of flying saucers and Bigfoot. But I think he would have really enjoyed it. The expression these days Read More
Link: Yuggoth, Our Ninth Planet
One of the best parts about reading older fiction – say, the detective fiction of the 1880s or the pulp stories of the 1920s – Read More
Of Footprints and Fearsome Beasts: The Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Media
To begin with this piece is going to look at Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch stories in as many mediums as we can squeeze into such Read More