Manly Wade Wellman’s Werewolves
Manly Wade Wellman wrote hundreds of fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters including werewolves. He wrote of them early in the pages of Weird Tales Read More
Category: Weird Tales
Web of Mystery: Ace’s Spider Monsters
These comics spin a web of mystery around their readers! Spider monsters in Horror comics are not uncommon, and Ace Magazines was no different. Classic Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 6 (1970-2016)
If you missed Part 5… The 1970s saw Wellman finishing his Sherlock Holmes Versus the War of the Worlds series with his son, Wade, as Read More
Frank Belknap Long: Editor
At the end of the 1940s, Frank Belknap Long worked in comic books as well as Pulps. With the Pulps fading away in the 1950s, Read More
The Spaceship as Character
I can remember seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture in the theatre (as we spell it in Canada) and bawling my eyes out when Kirk Read More
Sword & Sorcery Break & Enter
There is a small group of Sword & Sorcery tales that involve a hero in a break & enter into a wizard’s domicile. This is Read More
The Many Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” first appeared in Weird Tales in September 1929. It received an illustration by Hugh Rankin. (Rankin signed it DOAK because Read More
Thirteen Ghosts (From Weird Tales)
Thirteen Ghosts for your Halloween reading, from the pages of Weird Tales. (In honor of William Castle and Scooby-Doo.) By no means every ghost story Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Shazam Text Stories
Manly Wade Wellman wrote several text stories for Fawcett Comics during his tenure on the Captain Marvel comics. In Whiz Comics #25-30, he explored the Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 4 (1950-1959)
If you missed Part3 (Late 1940s) Manly Wade Wellman’s career continued on in the Pulps, but slowly over the years he transitioned into the historical Read More