Link: Ted White’s Fantastic: Short Heroic Fantasy
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction began its life as The Magazine of Fantasy. By the second issue the words “and Science Fiction” had Read More
Category: Weird Tales
Manly Wade Wellman Part 1 (1927-1940)
In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in Read More
Link: The Eyes of the Panther: A Weird Tales Mystery
The Jules de Grandins, the Conans, the Edmond Hamilton blockbusters were always prominently placed at the beginning of any issue of Weird Tales. Lurking in Read More
The Pellucidarian Dinosaur & Other Forms of Transport
In the last segment on riding beasts we focused largely on Barsoom and Amtor, or Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars and Venus, and similar types of Read More
Link: Sword of Cthulhu
Robert E. Howard wrote some Cthulhu Mythos stories, though most are admittedly minor ones. His Serpent Men were coopted into the cycle by H. P. Read More
Link: Anne of Green Horrors
I suppose it’s a national disgrace to admit you haven’t read Lucy Maud Montgomery when you are a Canuck. (My mother was a big fan, Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery Cliche No. 1: The Ming the Merciless Haircut
I am currently re-reading John Jakes’s entire Brak the Barbarian saga, and I was struck by an odd thought. Why do wizards in sword-and-sorcery always Read More
The Early Robert Bloch: 1935-1938
Robert Bloch became world famous when he wrote Psycho in 1959. The Alfred Hitchcock film had something to do with that. Before that he was Read More
The Case of the Ghost-Finder: Carnacki
In a house at No. 472, Cheyne Walk, five men assemble for a delightful dinner. Jessop, Arkright, Taylor and Dodgson (the narrator) all come to Read More
Link: The Handy-Dandy Mythos Plot Structure
It would be ridiculous to suggest that all Mythos stories have the same plot. As more and more tales are spun, this becomes less and Read More