Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Joe Staton (1948-)
Joe got his start at Charlton in 1971 (where he drew Space 1999 and E-Man) but became famous for drawing the Green Lantern comics. He Read More
Category: Dark Worlds Quarterly
Is That An Occult Detective Story?
It has been bothering me for some time in my study of the Ghostbreakers that some cases come very close to being occult detective story Read More
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
Ten Little Known Ghostbreaker Facts
10. Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist started out as the idea for a ghostbreaker novel: “I set out to write a supernatural detective story…” Blatty said. Read More
The Bagheeta to The Cat People
Val Lewton (1904-1951) has become famous in monster movie circles as the creator of The Cat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People Read More
The Monster-God Premiere: Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton’s first appearance in any professional publication was “The Monster-God of Mamurth” in Weird Tales, August 1926. In this tale, an archaeologist seeks out Read More
Mesmerists & Mind-Controllers
Victorian genre fiction before the turn of the century reflected a tension that the English felt towards the influx of foreigners into their country. (You Read More
Web Pulp: Putting Weird Tales in Perspective
Weird Tales stands tall as the original source of the superstars of Fantasy in the decades following the World War I. Robert E. Howard and Read More
Horror Magazine Illustrations & Covers
The artwork from Weird Tales was often as engrossing and unusual as the fiction it illustrated. Names like Virgil Finlay, Boris Dolgov, Lee Brown Coye, Read More
How I AM LEGEND Film Adaptations Miss the Point
WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the novel and the three film adaptations. The current pandemic has us all locked in our houses while our Read More