The Strangest Northerns: Old Black Magic and Weird Tales
Old Black Magic would not be out of place in Weird Tales. But what about Short Stories? The truth is both magazines were edited by Read More
Category: Monsters
The Philosophy of Fantasy: A Ramble
This piece is called “The Philosophy of Fantasy: A Ramble” because that is exactly what it is. I start here and I ramble on to Read More
The Legacy of the Speckled Band
The legacy of “The Speckled Band”, an adventure of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle, has sent a ripple through storytelling. “The Speckled Band” appeared Read More
Pulp Snow Monsters
New pulp snow monsters are hard to find because I’ve written about so many related creatures already. I wrote about the monsters of the Antarctic Read More
Those Fantastic Ape Monsters
Those fantastic ape monsters of Fantasy & Science Fiction show our interest in our shaggy relatives. Fiction writers produced tales of apes and apish creatures Read More
The Strangest Northerns: William Brockie
William Brockie was an author found in North-West Romances. Under his name it claims he is Ex-Constable, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This insider knowledge of Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Stanley Waterloo
Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was an American writer of note, largely for the novel The Story of Ab (1897), a prehistoric journal of a young man’s Read More
The Strangest Science Fiction Titles
Science Fiction has an advantage when it comes to titles. You can make them as crazy as you like and editors probably won’t complain. Despite Read More
The Fantasy Vampires of Clark Ashton Smith
This post begins: The vampires of Clark Ashton Smith are something different in the pages of Weird Tales. “The Unique Magazine” had plenty of tales Read More
The Golden Age of the Dragon: B&W Illos
Last time we looked at the Golden Age of the dragon in color. The black & white illustrations that filled the regular pages offer many Read More