Link: Size Does (Not) Matter: The New Paradigm
A good friend, writer Jack Mackenzie, got me thinking about book lengths in Science Fiction and how they have been tied to publishing. He also Read More
Category: Horror Fiction
Anthony M. Rud and “Ooze”
This post begins: To a fan of Weird Tales Anthony M. Rud is the guy who kicked it all off. He wrote the lead story Read More
The Plant Monsters of ACG
ACG pre-Code horror comics did more than just vampires and werewolves (though lots of those). Five comic stories in four years featured killer plant monsters. Read More
Classic Interview: Jack Passarella
Jack Passarella is the author of three novels in the Buffy universe and the Wither series featuring Wendy Ward. His latest is Wither’s Rain. He Read More
The Terror of Blue John Gap
“The Terror of Blue John Gap” by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Strand, August 1910) is a personal favorite of mine, along with C. J. Cutcliffe Read More
Link: Why Mythos Movies Suck (A Lot)
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 6
This post is brought to you by Monster by G. W. Thomas. Taken from the pages of this blog, Monster offers up posts about Science Read More
August Derleth in Weird Tales
August Derleth takes a lotta crap. Some of it is deserved but some of it isn’t. Like when people say Derleth wouldn’t have been in Read More
Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More