The Plant Monsters of ACG
ACG pre-Code horror comics did more than just vampires and werewolves (though lots of those). Five comic stories in four years featured killer plant monsters. Read More
Category: Cthulhu Mythos
Link: Why Mythos Movies Suck (A Lot)
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return 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
How To Become a Mythos Icon
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
Link: August Derleth: Hack or Hero?
August Derleth has been the whipping boy for HPL fans since 1939, when he created Arkham House with Donald Wandrei, a publishing concern specifically created Read More
Link: EAP-HPL-PKD: Shades of the Gothic
The word ‘Gothic’ has many definitions, all conflicting. First, it means the Germanic people who, amongst other tribes, sacked Rome in 410 AD. Because of Read More