Joseph Doolin: Jungle Cover Artist
Joseph Doolin (1896-1967) is my favorite Weird Tales artist if you are talking realistic style. I love Lee Brown Coye, Boris Dolgov, Hannes Bok, Virgil Read More
Category: Weird Tales
A. W. Bernal: The Man Who Was Two Men
For A. W. Bernal, fame was localized. What I mean is for a short time, to a small audience he was very famous but after Read More
Link: Cover Art: Branding Your Mythos
H.P. Lovecraft is often touted as one of the Big Three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. He was Read More
Lovecraftian Stories You Might Have Missed
Notice the “Lovecraftian stories”, not “Cthulhu Mythos stories” of the title. If you have been at this Mythos thing as long as I have (actively Read More
I Didn’t Know They Wrote Pulp!
I didn’t know they wrote Pulp! was one of the comments we have received from our first podcast. As discussed, many writers started in the Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly Podcast 1: Why Do You Write Pulp?
https://anchor.fm/darkworlds/episodes/Why-we-Write-Pulp-egjvev “Why Do You Write Pulp?” with G. W. Thomas and M. D. Jackson. A casual conversation on why and how we write the stuff Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 2: Satha the Giant Snake
If you missed last time… Satha the giant snake of the Hyborian Age is as iconic as the other frequent Howard baddie, the gorilla. Satha Read More
The Trial of Robot A-1
1939 saw the trial of two robots: first, Adam Link and then Robot A-1. It was a strange time for jurisprudence. Mechanical men were filling Read More
The Strangest Northerns: “Pamola’s Caribou”
“Pamola’s Caribou” (Weird Tales, May 1948) was the last of seven stories by Roger S. Vreeland. Of its author I can find no real information Read More
Robert E. Howard’s Crusades
Robert E. Howard’s stories about the Crusades are a treat, even to Sword & Sorcery fans. Especially to S&S readers who may not know him Read More