Canadian Weird Tales Writers
Canadian Weird Tales writers sounds like a very small group. Weren’t Pulp writers a bunch of hacks in crappy apartments in New York City? Their Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
The Strangest Northerns: Reynolds of the Mounted
Art Pinajian (1914-1999) got his start back in the 1930s. One of his first comics was “Reynolds of the Mounted”, a series of four-page Northerns Read More
The Strangest Northerns: W. Victor Cook
“The Chateau Mirabelle” by W. Victor Cook appeared in the October 1909 issue of The Idler. This Northern is sub-titled “A French-Canadian Ghost Story”. The Read More
Konar the Barbarian
“Konar the Barbarian” appeared in Feature Funnies #15-18 (December 1938 to March 1939), only two-three years after Robert E. Howard’s death. Did Robert M. Hyatt Read More
Artist & Author: Hannes Bok & Others
How often is the artist also the author of a Fantasy work? After looking over a selection of J R. R. Tolkien’s own artwork for Read More
Sword and Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed V
Sword & Sorcery stories by women are under-represented on this blog. That was never my intent. The field was dominated by men from 1920s to Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fanged Nemesis of the North
“Fanged Nemesis of the North” appeared in Beyond #14 (August 1952). It was written by Robert Turner. (Turner wrote about penning this story in Some Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Murderous Mimics
Youthful Comics published Beware #11 (August 1952) with “The Murderous Mimics”, a strange Northern. The story was written by an unknown author and drawn by Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Fangs of Folly
The Red Fox appeared in another strange Northern earlier in November 1947. The author is not known this time but L. B. Cole drew the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Red Fox Style
Red Fox in “The Voice of the Petrel” (Manhunt #5, February 1948) is a strange Northern that was written by another Fox, Gardner F. Fox. Read More