Horror Science Fiction
This post begins: Science Fiction. To some it is a literature of ideas, with the intent to explore, to wonder, to question. To others it Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
Guardians of the Ancient: Chapel Hill Reunion
Sometimes fans can get so heated up by a favorite story sequence or saga that they start to see examples everywhere. For me it was Read More
Tarzan: King of the Ring
The idea of Tarzan (or some other jungle lord) taking on the heavy weight champion of the world in a round of fisticuffs is a Read More
The Gods of East & West
In a previous article I showed how “The Tomb of Sarah” was the inspiration for one of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories. Quinn wrote Read More
Jack Kirby’s Kamandi Kritters
Planet of the Apes gave us more than just the immortal Charleton Heston screaming “Get your hands off me, you damn dirty apes!” and “Damn Read More
L. Sprague de Camp’s Eudoric Stories
L. Sprague de Camp was an old hand at Fantasy by the 1970s. The Conan pastiche business had slowed down since the 1960s but he Read More
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
The Strange Moon Saga of Edgar Rice Burroughs by D. K. Latta
American writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was a prolific creator of pulp and adventure stories. Burroughs wrote — as he himself would admit — for the Read More
Dark Worlds Magazine
Dark Worlds Magazine was an effort to recapture the excitement of the old days of the pulp magazines. Magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales. It was Read More
The Lord Of Batmanor
C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner were known in the Science Fiction world as the perfect husband-wife team. Kuttner could fall into bed late at Read More