The Vines of Tarzan – A Mystery
When I began research on plant monsters I initially thought there would be Tarzan stories or comics or something in it. I naturally associated plant Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
John D. MacDonald’s Park Falkner Series
Sometimes people can’t see the forest for the trees. John D. MacDonald is a good example. He created his first series (admittedly a short series) Read More
The Nursery Corner: Where Monsters Go To Die
This post begins: This piece is really about toys. Only we have to take a detour first…For you see, the monsters of the 1930s and Read More
Weird Tales & Robot Science Fiction
Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories in April 1926. This was a big deal for “scientifiction” as Hugo called it. An all-Science Fiction magazine! This would Read More
The Monsters of Jim Kjelgaard
Jim Kjelgaard will always have a place in the halls of Children’s Literature, with his many animal novels including Big Red (1945). But the author Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is here!
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is coming soon!
We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus since our last issue, Winter 2018. It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve Read More
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
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