The Black God’s Kiss: Jirel of Joiry
C. L. Moore was famous in several ways, first as a writer of space opera, then as half of the Science Fiction team “Lewis Padgett”. Read More
Category: Weird Tales
A Literary History of the Werewolf
The werewolf of the last 100 years is largely the product of Hollywood. The first big werewolf film was The Werewolf Of London (1935) starring Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 2
Peter Haining (1940-2007) was one of a new breed of anthologists, one who made his living at anthologizing alone. Like Martin H. Greenberg in Science Read More
The Science Fiction of Francis Flagg
Francis Flagg is not a name that falls from the lips when people talk about the early Science Fiction writers like E. E. Smith or Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 1
For many younger readers, their entry drug into the worlds of horror was the novels of Stephen King. For me that was not the case. Read More
Yuki-Onna, The Woman of the Snows
This piece begins: With the winter snows finally arriving, it seems natural to turn to Horror stories that concern the cold. I’ve already written about Read More
De Camp & Carter: The Early Conan Pastiches
In 1966, Lancer Books began publishing their purple-edged paperbacks with Conan the Adventurer. This first volume contained only Robert E. Howard originals and one re-write Read More
The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was one of the great originators of Science Fiction. What he did not create himself, he used in new ways. He gave us Read More
C. Hall Thompson: Lost Mythos Opportunities
August Derleth’s choices in the 1940s have come under criticism in recent years. Was he the man who saved Lovecraft? Or was he a petty Read More