How I AM LEGEND Film Adaptations Miss the Point
WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the novel and the three film adaptations. The current pandemic has us all locked in our houses while our Read More
Category: Movies
Creatures High and Low: The Monsters of Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (1905-1986) started his writing career during the hey-days of the Pulps, finding himself at home both in the science fiction magazines (Astounding) Read More
Link: The Unnameable or The Monster as Euphemism
H. P. Lovecraft pokes fun at a Monster Writer’s Dilemma in his short horror tale, “The Unnameable”. He begins it this way: We were sitting Read More
Link: Creepy Cryptids
H. P. Lovecraft died before the age of flying saucers and Bigfoot. But I think he would have really enjoyed it. The expression these days Read More
American Heroic Fantasy Graphic Novels
The term “Graphic Novel’ was coined in November 1964 by Richard Kyle in the pages of the fanzine, Alpha-Cappa. It started to get more traction Read More
Gulliver’s Covers
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift is a classic that is rarely appreciated beyond its adventure roots. Swift’s satire pokes fun at politics, science, technology, Read More
Link: Careful What You Wish For…
I was recently ruminating with my cousin about how our kids, now all in their twenties, don’t want the legacies we have gathered. Legacies? Millions 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
Link: The Gernsback Continuum
I know its cheeky to speak ill of the successful. They are after all… successful. But I can’t help it. “The Gernsback Continuum” by William Read More
Link: From a Gable Window
One of my favorite Cthulhu Mythos clichés is the protagonist dragged out of the window by a tentacle as he writes all about it. Where Read More