Jimminy and the Magic Book
DC Comics had a portal Fantasy comic in the tradition of “Fantasy Isle”, “Dicky in the Magic Forest”, “Danny in Wonderland”, “Sir Butch”, “Jimmy Jupiter” Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
The Definition of Sword & Sorcery
I don’t waste much time on defining Sword & Sorcery but it seems to be a thing again on the Internet. Men like Lin Carter Read More
Top Ten Doc Savage Novels For Halloween
Lester Dent (and the other Kenneth Robeson’s who penned the Doc Savage super-sagas) was always conscious of a certain atmospheric need in a good story. Read More
So You Want to Buy a House….
Welcome to Thomas & Associates, sellers of fine haunted houses. Have we got the property for you! Browse our extensive selection of haunts throughout the Read More
Galahad – Heroic Fantasy Hero
Every anthology comic book had a set of standard “types” of characters to be used in their strips. These included the superhero (based off of Read More
The Vampires’ Greatest Hits
In Richard Dalby’s Dracula’s Brood, Rare Vampire Stories by Friends and Contemporaries of Bram Stoker (1987) he lists the nine stories that are so familiar, Read More
Willard E. Hawkins, High Mountain Scribe
Willard E. Hawkins (1887-1970) was a Pulp writer, an editor and newspaperman from Colorado. He didn’t write exclusively for the fantastic Pulps, selling Westerns and Read More
Original Ghosts (and Their Pictures)
It’s October (and Friday the 13th!) and spook season is upon us! All those creepy collections you like to drag out this time of year, Read More
Beyond the Vortex
If you missed the last one… The idea of vortex as a place of danger dates back to mythology. Jason and the other Argonauts had Read More
Miles Breuer, Noble Amateur
Miles J. Breuer, M. D. (1889-1945) was an early Science Fiction writer as well as a doctor from Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a acolyte of Read More