Link: Tarzan, Jungle Detective
Tarzan of the Apes has had a long literary life. Originally published in 1914 in Tarzan of the Apes, the jungle lord was featured in Read More
Category: Mystery
The Early Robert Bloch: 1935-1938
Robert Bloch became world famous when he wrote Psycho in 1959. The Alfred Hitchcock film had something to do with that. Before that he was Read More
The Case of the Dream Detective: Moris Klaw
Sax Rohmer (born Arthur Sarsfield Ward) will be remembered forever as the creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, and the sub-genre of the suspense field that Read More
Impossible Crimes and John Dickson Carr
The Locked Room Mystery or Impossible Crime tale is the very oldest type of true Mystery tale if you consider Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders Read More
Link: Shooting Star: Murder From the Moon
Robert Bloch holds an unusual position in genre fiction in that he wrote for both the science fiction and mystery magazines equally well. (Fredric Brown Read More
The Freelance Ghostbreaker: John Silence
The occult detective tradition has encompassed characters as famous as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Van Helsing. But the most influential fictional detective to take on Read More
Link: Wait Here While I Describe the Eldritch Horror: Weird Tales Radio?
You learn the strangest things when you read “The Eyrie,” the old letter column in Weird Tales. Like that a boyish Julius Schwartz was a Read More
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Mystery Challenge
Isaac Asimov is well known to both Science Fiction fans and Mystery readers. In the 1970s, Ike wrote a straight Mystery series for Ellery Queen Read More
Link: While You Wait (for Superman) Classics: Dr. Occult
In 1935, while waiting to sell Superman to the comic strip syndicates, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created other comics to sell to the fledgling Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More