Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Link: Wait Here While I Describe the Eldritch Horror: Weird Tales Radio?
You learn the strangest things when you read “The Eyrie,” the old letter column in Weird Tales. Like that a boyish Julius Schwartz was a Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
A. Hyatt Verrill – Science Fiction Writer
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) is an unlikely early Science Fiction writer. He traveled throughout North and South America and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More
Link: Yuggoth, Our Ninth Planet
One of the best parts about reading older fiction – say, the detective fiction of the 1880s or the pulp stories of the 1920s – Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1951
1951 saw Edmond Hamilton splitting his time between Pulps and comics. It was the year he finished the Captain Future stories though his comic counter Read More
Alien Space Bats!
This post begins: I recently heard that ASB is a neologism used by writers of Alternate History Science Fiction. The term refers to an implausible Read More
Link: Hok the Mighty
Prehistoric fiction began almost as soon as Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. A lot of this early fiction seems silly in Read More
The Martian Riding Beast & Other Forms of Transport
Writers of the fantastic have had to make peace with an idea that may not sit well with them. That is quite simply, once you Read More