Plant Monsters in the Comics II
If you missed the first crop… The comics grew out of the Pulps like a bud on a branch….plant metaphor enough for you? Still, it Read More
Category: Occult Detectives
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 3
This post is brought to you by Strange Detectives by G. W. Thomas. This collection features the strangest detectives you have ever met. Victorian sleuths Read More
We’ve Updated the Bookstore!
I’d like to thank M. D. Jackson for spending several hours making our bookstore more interactive. If you haven’t seen it already, he has added Read More
Link: The Door to Infinity: Mythos Without Lovecraft
I got my start in the Mythos business by playing Call of Cthulhu, a role-playing game in which private detectives, soldiers, dilettantes and hobos face Read More
Link: Ghosts & Laughs: Comedians as Ghostbreakers
The idea of a ‘funny ghostbreaker’ begins not in a movie, but on the stage. Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Read More
Link: The Darker Drink: Pseudonymous Saint
The Saint series by Leslie Charteris is known for its highly adventurous flare. In fact, Charteris really created the James Bond film feel. If you Read More
Link: “Spider Mansion” and the Old Hand
Fritz Leiber was an innovator. If he wrote in a genre, he always tried to do something to improve that type of storytelling. This desire Read More
In Search of a Classic: The Mummy
The Mummy as a monster was created out of ignorance. The mystique of evil Egyptian sorceries was the vagaries of human curiosity. Hieroglyphics were not Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 2
This post is brought to you by the Wild Inc. series by Jack Mackenzie. Enjoy Pulp tales of a band of heroes who defeat the Read More
Link: On the Trail of Lonesome Ghosts
I’ve been watching Disney’s “Lonesome Ghosts” from 1937 and wondering… where did Dick Friel get the story idea and how much it relates to the Read More