Death…Ten Feet Tall: Conan Vs. The Hulking Beast
Looking at covers for the old Conan the Barbarian comics, I was struck by a few thoughts. First off, a number of covers feature Conan Read More
Category: Jungle Adventure
Two Adventure Classics of My Youth
Neither of these books are Science Fiction, fantasy or Horror per se, but their adventurousness made them welcome to a boy who loved Edgar Rice Read More
Link: James Blish of the Jungle
James Blish won his place in Science Fiction history through the critical and the popular. On the critical side, his novel A Case of Conscience Read More
Link: Conan the Cimmerian: Sword & Sorcery Superstar
When many people hear the words “Sword & Sorcery”, they immediately think of Conan. He might be Robert E. Howard’s original, or the L. Sprague Read More
The Lost Continent’s Monsters
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944) was famous in the day (now largely forgotten) for a series of stories about a sailor named Captain Kettle. These Read More
“The Leopard’s Paw” by Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was a Science Fiction writer who is loved for his Captain Future novels, his Star Kings and any number of other Pulp stories. Read More
Jungle Jimmy Olsen
The first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln, was 1918, a silent movie. By 1956, Gordon Scott had replaced Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker. The average Read More
Are We Not Men? Moreau’s Island
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1897) was written by H. G. Wells as a fundraiser and a pamphlet against animal vivisection. It is usually thought Read More
John Murray Reynolds, Forgotten Pulpster?
John Murray Reynolds (1901-1993) is a writer who was on my radar because I saw his name occasionally in Weird Tales or Planet Stories. I Read More
Clayton’s Jungle Stories: The Creeping Terror
Jungle Stories is usually thought of as a Fiction House pulp from 1938, running alongside Planet Stories, Indian Stories and North-West Stories. But there was Read More