Sword & Sorcery Anthologies 1963-1985
The Sword & Sorcery boom of the late 1960s was driven by the publication of The Lord of the Rings by Donald A. Wollheim at Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Marvel Movie Preview #1
As the name suggests, Marvel Movie Preview #1 was the first Marvel magazine of its kind. This one-shot publication adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land Read More
Wells Reimagined
Hugo Gernsback had a vision. The first all-Science Fiction magazine. It took him several years but in April 1926 he unveiled Amazing Stories onto an Read More
The Original Conan Art
The original Conan by Robert E. Howard appeared largely in Weird Tales. Because of this, the artists of Weird Tales are intrinsically linked to the Read More
William Hope Hodgson: The Bottleneck
Horror writers use many techniques to heighten the terror in their work. One of my favorites is the bottleneck. As with traffic jams, the bottleneck Read More
Jungle Jim
As a Tarzan fan you can’t but help notice all the knock offs and also-rans. Edgar Rice Burroughs created a cottage industry in the jungle. Read More
Five Things I Like About Fantastic Story Quarterly
Fantastic Story Quarterly, then Fantastic Story Magazine, was published by Best Books Inc. from the Winter of 1950 to the Spring of 1955. It is Read More
The First Mythos Images
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
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
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