Dr. Styx – First Mythos Comic?
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
Category: Horror
Early Marvel Mythos
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: DC Style
Tales of the haunted north appeared across DC’s horror line. Here’s a sample of the best of them. The earliest Northern was actually from December Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: Marvel Style
Tales of the north as a sub-genre date back to the Franklin Expedition, then the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Northerns in Marvel Comics, those Read More
A Literary History of the Werewolf
The werewolf of the last 100 years is largely the product of Hollywood. The first big werewolf film was The Werewolf Of London (1935) starring Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 2
Peter Haining (1940-2007) was one of a new breed of anthologists, one who made his living at anthologizing alone. Like Martin H. Greenberg in Science Read More
The Science Fiction of Francis Flagg
Francis Flagg is not a name that falls from the lips when people talk about the early Science Fiction writers like E. E. Smith or Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 1
For many younger readers, their entry drug into the worlds of horror was the novels of Stephen King. For me that was not the case. Read More
Serpents of the Air
Technology can date a story faster than Captain Kirk can hook up with a Venusian barmaid. One day the story is plausible, the next… A Read More