Impossible Crimes and John Dickson Carr
The Locked Room Mystery or Impossible Crime tale is the very oldest type of true Mystery tale if you consider Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders Read More
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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
The Diary of a Madman: The Horror Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is a strange figure in French literature. The majority of his works are short stories dealing with the social life of Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
A Cowboy, A Space Captain, a Private Detective and a Barbarian Walk Into a Bar…
That could be the beginnings of a really lame joke, but it’s something more. All four of these characters, these separate genre icons, share something Read More
The False Monster Tradition
This post begins: The notion that a monster should prove to be a fraud is a fairly recent idea. The warriors gathered around the scop 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