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contents INTRODUCTION OVERCOMING THE MONSTER: SF, F & H THE MONSTER STORY THE UNNAMEABLE: THE MONSTER AS EUPHEMISM THE VAMPIRE AS LOTHARIO THE WOMAN WITH Read More
Category: Horror
Warren in Space – Part 1
The idea of a Horror comic set in space goes back into the Golden Age. The first company to really refine such a tale was Read More
Weird Tales TV: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
If you missed the last one… “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (Weird Tales, July 1943, also in The Mystery Companion, 1943) is in some ways Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Extra Passenger
If you missed the last one… We continue out look at Weird Tales stories that made it onto television with another episode of Boris Karloff’s Read More
The Magic Glasses
Last time we looked at Robert Bloch’s “The Cheaters”, which featured a pair of glasses that only saw the truth in people’s minds. Bloch’s idea Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Cheaters
Weird Tales Weird Tales published literally hundreds of stories over its original thirty-one year run. It should be no surprise that some of these stories Read More
Devil’s Gulch, or How To Write a Weird Western
It’s not very often I talk about a book I am going to write before I write it. This one is unusual in that it Read More
It Can’t Be! More Plant Monsters!
If you missed the last one… As we go on searching for strange and terrible plants, finding more obscure stories that we missed, the selections Read More
Grimm Ghost Stories Tales of Heroic Fantasy
If you missed the last one… While Gold Key had their own Sword & Sorcery hero in Dagar the Invincible, the publishers liked to include Read More
Lost Cities of the Silver Age
If you missed the last one…. The Silver Age did not produce the number of lost cities that we found in the Golden Age. Unless Read More