Overcoming the Monster: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
This piece begins…Let me tell you how I overcame a monster. A writer gets few a-ha! moments because the process of story-creating can be a Read More
Author: G. W. Thomas
Robert E. Howard’s James Allison in Comics
Roy Thomas sat in a unique position in the early 1970s. None of the Howard material had been adapted unless you count one very obscure Read More
The Fantastical Fantasy Writer: Geoff St. Reynard
Robert W. Krepps (1919-1980) produced Science Fiction and Fantasy under the more romantic name of “Geoff St. Reynard” for two publishers in particular, Ray A. Read More
The Doc Savage Black & White Magazine
Marvel Comics pursued a line of black & white magazines in the early 1970s. The idea, no doubt, came from the success of the Warren Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Franken-Style
Today Strangest Northerns gives you thrills Franken-style. The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) ends in the Arctic with Victor chasing his terrible creation over Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Link: Henry Kuttner: Mythos Mistake?
Henry Kuttner has come back into the public eye with The Last Mimsey (2007), a science fiction film about children who receive educational toys from Read More
Welcome to the Jungle…
In which the author tries to explain to himself why he still loves jungle stories… The jungles of the world are places of adventure. Whether Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ken Barr (1933-2016)
Ken Barr was a Scottish artist who made his mark as a paperback cover man and with Marvel’s Black & White magazines like Doc Savage, Read More
The Bats of DC
Berni Wrightson’s cover for House of Mystery #195 (October 1971) got me to thinking how DC Comics made that swooping bat figure their own, and Read More