An Interview with Michael May
Michael May is a fiction author, blogger, and podcaster. He’s the writer of Kill All Monsters, a graphic novel co-created with artist Jason Copland and Read More
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Yuki-Onna, The Woman of the Snows
This piece begins: With the winter snows finally arriving, it seems natural to turn to Horror stories that concern the cold. I’ve already written about Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Windigo
One of the things you do as you get older is peek backwards at the things you held dear when you were a kid. Sometimes Read More
Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Eternal Lion
Frank Frazetta was the perfect artist to capture the danger and majesty of Burroughs’ lion creatures. An author can become identified with certain motifs. This Read More
De Camp & Carter: The Early Conan Pastiches
In 1966, Lancer Books began publishing their purple-edged paperbacks with Conan the Adventurer. This first volume contained only Robert E. Howard originals and one re-write Read More
The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was one of the great originators of Science Fiction. What he did not create himself, he used in new ways. He gave us Read More
C. Hall Thompson: Lost Mythos Opportunities
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
The Christmas Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Just the name Charles Dickens is enough to fill the ghost-story reader with images of snowy Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens, through his novel A Read More
The Case of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849) is the father of the mystery story, the inventor of psychological horror, and an early writer of science fiction. His works Read More