The Quintessential Monster Library
The Quintessential Monster Library might have an issue with our earlier Quintessential Ghost Story Library except it doesn’t really. The books and stories selected for Read More
Category: Gothic
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
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
The Ghostbreakers: The Case of the Monkey Glands
The Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle might have been called “The Case of the Monkey Glands”. The Read More
The Ormolu Clock and Other Timepieces
“The Ormolu Clock” by August Derleth appeared in Weird Tales for January 1950. It was one of his later ghost stories not connected to the Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Dr. Drew, Stalker of the Unknown
Dr. Drew, Stalker of the Unknown, appeared in The Secret Files of Dr. Drew, an occult detective series created by Will Eisner, Marilyn Mercer and Read More
The Shadow of Fu Manchu in Weird Tales
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) created Fu Manchu in 1911, with the first section of the serial appearing in October 1912. “The Zayat Kiss” opens the novel Read More