Top Ten Doc Savage Novels For Halloween
Lester Dent (and the other Kenneth Robeson’s who penned the Doc Savage super-sagas) was always conscious of a certain atmospheric need in a good story. Read More
Category: Occult Detectives
Original Ghosts (and Their Pictures)
It’s October (and Friday the 13th!) and spook season is upon us! All those creepy collections you like to drag out this time of year, Read More
Doc Savage vs. Superman
Doc Savage vs. Superman? You can blame Will Murray for this one. In his piece called simply “Intermission” in the Sanctum reprints of Murder Mirage/The Read More
Invisible Monsters in Weird Tales
Invisible monsters in Weird Tales would be a long list if I included every reference to “invisible bonds” or the feeling of being watched by Read More
Alberta Connections to Pulps and Comics
On August 19th I gave this talk to an audience at the Central Alberta Fanfest. I figured after all that research, why not make a Read More
Tomes of Evil
Tomes of evil do not begin or end with H. P. Lovecraft’s most famous volume, The Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred. His friends like Clark Ashton Read More
Still More Bronze Age Plant Monsters IV
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age has the benefit of all the collective plant monsters of the Golden and Silver Ages before Read More
John Dickson Carr Radio Shows in Comics
The Mystery writer, John Dickson Carr, wrote several episodes of Suspense for Radio back in the early 1940s. (For a complete list of links go Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Mister E
DC Comics love a good ghostbreaker. Some have long careers, even get movies. Others lurk in out-of-way places like in the back pages of old Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Haunted Hall
“Haunted Hall” by Donald Honig is from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, October 1961. What could be better for Hallowe’en than a ghost story? Honig plays Read More