The Veiled Woman or Let Me Spillane it to Yah!
In a previous article I talked about how Robert Leslie Bellem had attempted to blend Science Fiction with a murder mystery before Isaac Asimov. In Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
The Art of the Shaver Mystery
by M. D. Jackson Was it a deliberate hoax or did the editor of Amazing Stories use a man’s mental illness for profit? The Shaver Read More
Rear Windows: Hollywood and Cornell Woolrich
In 2007, the movie Disturbia, starring Shia Lebeouf, came and went and the older crowd just shrugged and said, “Rear Window”. Replace the word “murderer” Read More
Cracking the Colour Code of Mars: The Barsoomian “Trilogy” of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by D. K. Latta Burroughs’ Mars is filled with races of all colours, but do those those colours have earthly analogs? Best remembered today as Read More
Captain Meek & Doctor Bird
Part Sherlock Holmes, part Professor Challenger, Doctor Bird faced sixteen encounters with the strange and fantastic and inspired such characters as Doc Savage. Captain Sterner Read More
Science Fiction as Social Commentary
Despite its far flung settings and futuristic subjects, the best SF still has ties to the here and now The very best science fiction, whether Read More
Cave Men (and Women) & Dinosaurs
By M.D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas Researchers have discovered a brand new species of human ancestor buried deep inside a South African cave system. Read More
Helping Out a Friend: The Science Fiction of Tom Curry
This post begins: Tom Curry (1900-1976) has won his place in the Pulps as a Western writer, the main author of the Rio Kid Magazine Read More
Big Brain Aliens
Aliens have big heads. Big heads mean big brains. Makes sense, right? Or does it? With the increase in understanding of our ancestral roots, we Read More
Ithaqua: The Wendigo and the Walker on the Winds
August Derleth has been praised or reviled as an editor and posthumous collaborator of H. P. Lovecraft but I think Mythos fans often forget he Read More