The Aliens of Gerry Carlyle, Interplanetary Huntress
Gerry Carlyle is a famous SF character created by Arthur K. Barnes. In the best “Bring’em Back Alive” tradition, she is the Interplanetary Huntress who Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
Plant Monsters of the 1950s
If you missed the 1940s… With the Plant Monsters of the 1950s we see the last of the Pulps and the transition to digest-sized SF. Read More
Jeffrey Catherine Jones: Early Sword & Sorcery Comics
Jeffrey Catherine Jones did some early Sword & Sorcery comics before and after the rise of old Conan. Some of these comics aren’t pure Read More
Lovecraftian Elements in Sword & Sorcery
The Lovecraftian elements in Sword & Sorcery often make it or break it for me. I love that blend of energy that H. P. Lovecraft Read More
More New Paperbacks
Here’s three more paperback versions. Enjoy! BEARSHIRT #2: THE HIDDEN WORLD By G. W. Thomas Enter the world of Arthan the bear man! Traveling to Read More
Now In Paperback!
As promised, paperback editions. Tomorrow we will have Bearshirt #2 and #3 as well as The Masterless Apprentice. Thanks to M. D. Jackson for getting Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Mister E
DC Comics love a good ghostbreaker. Some have long careers, even get movies. Others lurk in out-of-way places like in the back pages of old Read More
Creating a Fantasy Character – Lin Carter and Beyond
Jandar of Callisto Lin Carter’s “Creating a Fantasy Character” appeared in Savage Tales #7 (November 1974). Carter wrote a number of non-fiction pieces for Marvel Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Haunted Hall
“Haunted Hall” by Donald Honig is from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, October 1961. What could be better for Hallowe’en than a ghost story? Honig plays Read More
Home is the Hunter
If you missed the last one… As Robert Louis Stevenson said in “Requiem”… “Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from Read More