Garnett Radcliffe in Weird Tales
Garnett Radcliffe (1898-1971) did seven stories for Weird Tales. These were all between 1951-1954, so in the declining years of the magazine. Radcliffe had an Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
More Golden Age Comics for Sword & Sorcery Fans
Sword & Sorcery comics were few and far between in the Golden Age. But they weren’t non-existent either. “Crom the Barbarian” by Gardner Fox, “The Read More
Gold Key Does Plant Monsters
Here’s how Gold Key does Plant Monsters in the Bronze Age. Most of these appeared in Boris Karloff’s horror comic but you can find others Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Some Early Solitary Cases
Not all ghostbreakers have lengthy careers like Carnacki, Semi-Dual or Jules De Grandin. Often they are single event participants like the unnamed narrator in Bulwer-Lytton’s Read More
The Severed Hand in Comics II
If you missed the last one… The severed hand is one of horror’s classic monsters. Like most, it started in fiction before coming to comic Read More
The Ghost Story Anthologies of Dorothy Scarborough
A Scholar From Texas Dorothy Scarborough was born in Texas in 1878. She attended Baylor College then the University of Chicago before going onto Oxford. Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant
Meet The Judge Manly Wade Wellman’s first ghostbreakers have not fared as well as his two big stars: John Thunstone and Silver John. During Wellman’s Read More
Boris Karloff’s Tales of Heroic Fantasy
Tales of heroic fantasy can be found in the pages of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery from Gold Key comics. “Mystery” was Silver Age code Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Ghost Gallery and Drew Murdoch
With the success of Dr. Occult at DC in 1935, comic publishers created a host of ghost-busting heroes. At Fiction House, this was Drew Murdoch Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees – Part 2
If you missed the first part…. Continuing our look at tree monsters. Last time the trees were angry because of murders, taking their justified revenge Read More