Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle
The Top Ten Monsters of Arthur Conan Doyle offer us a nice mix of supernatural and natural fiends and terrors. It is well known that Read More
Category: Occult Detectives
The Ghostbreakers: Gellett Burgess’s Ghost Extinguisher
I have never been quiet about how much I dislike humorous fantasy, and that includes funny ghost stories. “The Ghost Extinguisher” by Gellett Burgess (Cosmopolitan, Read More
Top Ten Monsters of William Hope Hodgson
The Top Ten Monsters of William Hope Hodgson are of particular interest to any fan of H. P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos. Much of Read More
Top Ten Most Prolific Authors in Weird Tales
The most prolific authors in Weird Tales are names you know. You don’t appear a hundred times and not get noticed. Still, the question remains, Read More
The Masters of Fantasy by Neil Austin
“The Masters of Fantasy” by Neil Austin was a biography feature that ran in Famous Fantastic Mysteries from August 1947 to April 1950. In all, Read More
Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine -The Halloween Issue
Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, October 1981 did something special for Halloween. An issue devoted to monsters– well, criminals who appeared to be monsters anyway–in a Read More
The Beast of Gevaudan
The Beast of Gevaudan Of all the werewolves in history, the Beast of Gevaudan is perhaps the most intriguing. We can assume from the accounts Read More
Lovecraftian Elements in the Early Doctor Strange
The Lovecraftian elements in the early Doctor Strange comics were formative as well as fun to look for. As with all Marvel characters, Doctor Strange Read More
The Shoggoths at Skywald
“The Shoggoths” at Skywald is a good reminder for someone like myself who got involved with the Cthulhu Mythos in the 1980s when Call of Read More
The Ghostbreakers: Werewolf Mysteries
The early 1970s saw two films that offered werewolf mysteries. One was a TV movie and the other a theatrical release. Both hid the werewolf’s Read More