The Gothic Heritage of the Ghostbreaker
The word “Gothic” is open to much misinterpretation these days. Most people associate it with a certain lifestyle that requires black clothing and white make-up. Read More
Category: Horror Fiction
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 15: The Slug of Larsha
If you missed the last one… “The Hall of the Dead” was an L. Sprague de Camp composition based on a Robert E. Howard outline. Read More
Frankenstein’s Monster in Bronze Age Comics: 1975-1986
If you missed the last one…. The rest of the Bronze Age, 1975 to 1986, is a scattered and largely unimpressive collection. The Frankenstein boom Read More
Kill, Puppets, Kill!
Abraham Merritt was the king of the Fantasy writers in the 1920s. He didn’t even do the job full time. He worked on a newspaper Read More
Days of the Triffids
John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (aka “Revolt of the Triffids”) was a watershed moment in Science Fiction as well as in the career Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
The Terror Garden: The Orchid of Asia
The Terror Garden has many orchids in it. Stories like “The Orchid Terror” from 1911 are typical as it that classic “The Purple Terror” (1899) Read More
The Ghostbreakers: More Famous Fakes
In our last post, “Three Famous Fakes” we featured Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen and Agatha Christie. This one offers three more ghosts that prove Read More
The Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle
The stories of Arthur Conan Doyle are so much more than merely Holmes and Watson. ACD was a master storyteller and he wrote many volumes Read More
Frank Belknap Long’s Solar System
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of the first Buck Rogers comic strip ever published in the newspapers. In honor of that Space Opera milestone, here Read More