Good Guys & Better Coffee
The old Pulp magazines offered everything from a gritty back street world of violence to the unimaginable planets of the far stars. Pulp fiction was Read More
Author: G. W. Thomas
Robot Pulp History in 24 Covers
The first Pulp magazine to offer robot stories was not a purely Science Fiction mag but Weird Tales, which featured the first robotic brain, giant Read More
Link: Conan Vs. Groo
December 1932, Conan the Cimmerian explodes onto the pages of Weird Tales in “The Phoenix on the Sword” by Robert E. Howard. Not the first Read More
The Eighth Wonder of the World
I stumbled upon a copy of the 1976 King Kong and realized, since I had the original and the 2005 Peter Jackson films, that a Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Pulps
Edgar Rice Burroughs flourished during the age of the weekly magazines, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Blue Book and Red Book. These weekly publications were also general Read More
“Cry Witch!” by Fritz Leiber
Certain themes are explored fully by an author then never touched again. John Wyndham never wrote The Return of the Triffids nor Robert A. Heinlein Read More
John D. MacDonald’s Park Falkner Series
Sometimes people can’t see the forest for the trees. John D. MacDonald is a good example. He created his first series (admittedly a short series) Read More
Weird Tales Classics: “The Tree-Men of M’Bwa”
“The Tree-Men of M’Bwa” by Donald Wandrei is one of those wonderful Weird Tales gems that I love to happen upon. The story was published Read More
The Children of Dracula – Part Two: The Door of the Unreal
Hollywood changes everything. A series of successful films and the commonly-held view of things changes. ‘Vampires turning to ash in sunlight’ is a good example. Read More
The Children of Dracula – Part One: Brood of the Witch-Queen
In “The Supernatural Horror in Literature” H. P. Lovecraft selects three novels as the offspring of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: “…Dracula evoked many similar novels of Read More