Fredric Brown – Part 1 (1938-1946)
Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was a master of two genres: Mystery and Science Fiction. The fact that he wrote both often blended story material for he Read More
Tag: Unknown Worlds
Robert Bloch in Unknown
Robert Bloch appeared in Unknown/Unknown Worlds only three times. Despite this, it was an important transition for him. Bloch’s primary market was Weird Tales. He Read More
The Return of the Wendigo
In Strangest Northerns we looked at the stories of Algernon Blackwood, George Allan England and August Derleth around the Wendigo legend. Northerns like Jane and Read More
Frank Belknap Long – Part Two: The 1940s
If you missed Part One… The 1940s saw Frank Belnkap Long move into new areas as a professional writer. He is moving away from Lovecraft Read More
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1960-1961
If you missed the 1950s…. In the 1960s, comic covers truly discovered dinosaurs. Whole series now featured dinos every issue. DC and Dell were the Read More
The Magazines of Sword & Sorcery
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
Link: “Spider Mansion” and the Old Hand
Fritz Leiber was an innovator. If he wrote in a genre, he always tried to do something to improve that type of storytelling. This desire Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 2 (1941-1943)
If you miss it: Part 1 (1927-1940). The early 1940s were busy for Manly as he wrote Pulps and comics. Wellman wrote comics for Fawcett, Read More