The Monster-God Premiere: Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton’s first appearance in any professional publication was “The Monster-God of Mamurth” in Weird Tales, August 1926. In this tale, an archaeologist seeks out Read More
Author: G. W. Thomas
King Kull Covers
Conan the Barbarian will always be Robert E. Howard’s top dog but there are those of us who enjoy Kull just as much. (In Robert Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More
The Cases of Jules De Grandin – Part 5
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures by G. W. Thomas. This companion collection to Strange Detectives features occult detectives in the Old Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 2 (1951-1952)
If you miss Part One… By the second half of 1951 Adventures Into the Unknown was hitting its lycanthropic stride with were-creatures in five issues Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Vincente Alcazar (1944-)
Spanish-born artist, he found work in America thanks to Gray Morrow and Neal Adams who recommended him to publishers. Much of his work was in Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 1
Critics of horror fiction have labeled Lovecraft’s brand of storytelling “cosmic” horror to differentiate it from the regular legions of werewolves and murderers that filled Read More
The Werewolves of ACG – Part 1 (1948-1951)
American Comics Group had five horror titles including Adventures Into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds, Out of the Night, The Skeleton Hand and The Clutching Hand. Read More
Mesmerists & Mind-Controllers
Victorian genre fiction before the turn of the century reflected a tension that the English felt towards the influx of foreigners into their country. (You Read More