IMAGINATION – Where Mystery Writers Wrote SF
Writers of Science Fiction and Mystery have always shared a common point of origin in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe is usually Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
The Scale of Sword & Sorcery (or Why Conan Doesn’t Suck)
There are those Fantasy writers and critics that accuse Robert E. Howard’s Conan of lacking any depth because he just hacks his way out of Read More
Link: How Bug-Eyed Was Your Monster?
(With apologies to Robert Bloch) How fair is the label of the BEM (or bug-eyed monster) in 1930s science fiction? If you believe the detractors, Read More
Link: The Ghostbreakers Mythos
Lovecraft’s circle shared mention of their separate creations in the pages of Weird Tales, name-dropping here and there a friend’s character or some other reference. Read More
Robot Pulp History in 24 Covers
The first Pulp magazine to offer robot stories was not a purely Science Fiction mag but Weird Tales, which featured the first robotic brain, giant Read More
Link: Conan Vs. Groo
December 1932, Conan the Cimmerian explodes onto the pages of Weird Tales in “The Phoenix on the Sword” by Robert E. Howard. Not the first Read More
Rear Windows: Hollywood and Cornell Woolrich
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun II: The Book Collector by G. W. Thomas. This sister volume to Read More
Cracking the Colour Code of Mars: The Barsoomian “Trilogy” of Edgar Rice Burroughs
This post is brought to you by Whispers of Ice and Sand: Space Westerns by G. W. Thomas, a collection of stories set on different Read More
Cave Men (and Women) & Dinosaurs
By M.D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #2: The Hidden World by G. W. Thomas. The Arthan Read More
Big Brain Aliens
This post is brought to you by The Paradigm Trap by Jack Mackenzie. The long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity Read More