Jack Williamson’s “The Alien Intelligence”
If you missed the last one… Our Strange Adventures series continues with Edmond Hamilton’s good buddy, Jack Williamson. Jack would pen several fantastic adventure novels, Read More
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Edmond Hamilton’s The Lake of Life
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures, a collection of world-spanning Horror-Adventure tales coming out in early 2025. Like Edmond Hamilton, I enjoy Read More
Top Ten Ghostbreakers From Weird Tales
Today’s post is brought to you by Iron Faerie Publishing up-coming anthology, Hallowed. This new collection has an unpublished Book Collector story in it by Read More
The Fearless Vampire Killers of the Pulps
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) was a Roman Polanski comedy about vampire hunters in the Hammer tradition. The idea of a brave group of men Read More
Arthur J. Burks Part 10: 1936
If you missed the last one… Another 5.5 stories a month. Arthur J. Burks was one of the “million-word-a-year” men and this consistent production Read More
Festus Pragnell: British Enthusiast
Festus Pragnell (1905-1977) was a retired English policeman from South Hampton who wrote when unemployment gave him time to ponder ideas. What we would call Read More
Get Off My World!
In honor of our new space adventure novel, The Gear Crew by Jack Mackenzie, here is some classic space opera to get you in the Read More
LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1960s
If you missed the last one… The 1960s opens with what might be one of the last, great Pulp adventure tales for plants. After Harrison’s Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1928-1929
If you missed the last one… 1928 and 1929 show a real improvement over the previous years for serials. This is largely in part to Read More