Rainbow of Reprints
Everything Old Is New Again! Reprinting Science Fiction began right from the beginning of American Pulp Science Fiction. Farnsworth Wright, over at Weird Tales, brought Read More
Category: Fantasy
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XII
The Guardian of the Vault “The Guardian of the Vault” by Paul Spencer (Years’ Best Fantasy 2, 1976) is a story chosen by Lin Carter Read More
The Underwater City in the Golden Age
The concept of the underwater city, usually a futuristic deal under a glass dome, is as old as Science Fiction. John Wilkins, in Mathematicall Magick Read More
Weird Tales Day
Yesterday was Weird Tales Day. The one hundredth anniversary of the first issue of Weird Tales hitting the newsstands. The first Pulp magazine dedicated to Read More
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White
Edgar Allan Poe in Black & White comics is a tale of two rival publishers. Warren and Skywald, both used the public domain stories of Read More
Adventures Underground
This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #2 The Hidden World by G. W. Thomas. The second novel in the series takes place in Read More
Atlantis: The Pulp Years – Part 1: 1910-1920s
Atlantis flourished during The Pulp Years, 1923-1954. In L. Sprague de Camp’s Lost Continents (1954) he discusses the romantic novels of the 1880-90s, then follows Read More
The History of Fantasy – Homeric Comics
Homeric Comics are a thing. Really. Amazing Mystery Funnies #20 (May 1940) presented this one-page filler: The unknown author really wants to make the point Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1930s: Odds & Ends
If you missed Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories…. For our last post on the Plant Monsters of the 1930s, we offer a potpourri of various Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1940s
If you missed the last one… The 1940s saw a variety of Science Fiction and Horror magazines use plants in different ways. Sometimes they were Read More