The Monster Genre II
My obsession with monsters is well known. You can dribble on about H. G. Wells and Socialism, his work for Humankind until you’re blue in Read More
Category: Horror
The Furies & Other Killer Bees
Sometimes cover art haunts me. The image of a large wasp attacking a human stayed with me for decades even though I never had a Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
Something in the Blood: A Classic Interview with Margaret L. Carter
Margaret L. Carter is the author of the Vanishing Breed series of vampire novels. At the time of this interview the series was underway. Today Read More
Victorian Monsterfest: “The Monster of Lake La Metrie”
I first encountered “The Monster of Lake LaMetrie”in The Rivals of H. G. Wells (1979) edited by A. Kingsley Russell. This delightful collection has the Read More
Guy de Maupassant Comics in the Golden and Silver Age
Guy de Maupassant is a master of the short story. He wrote several Horror story classics as well including his masterpiece, “The Horla” (1881). These Read More
My Cthulhu Story
Back in the 1980s I was obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft. I was also a cartoonist. That’s a bad combo. Thus…. Copyright G. W. Thomas Read More
Sword & Sorcery Comics Hall of Fame: Archie Goodwin
If you are going to associate a name with Sword & Sorcery comics it is usually Roy Thomas. This is ironic in that Roy has Read More
Mike Kaluta’s “I, Vampire” Covers
The House of Mystery, like all the Horror anthology comics, found the 1980s harder than the 70s. To beef up sales, continuing characters were introduced Read More
The Earliest Plant Monsters
Stories of giant man-eating trees or blood-sucking vines have become part of the SF/F/H genres to the point where we don’t really think about their Read More