The Ghostbreakers: Shiela Crerar
Shiela Crerar is a poor Scottish girl thrown on her luck when her uncle dies, leaving her in debt. To manage to survive in Read More
Category: Werewolves
Monster Genre III: A Ramble
Time is a fine polisher. Take for example Charles L. Grant’s words from 1983 and the Introduction to Shadows 6: “There are Critters and there Read More
The Lovecraftian Tom Sutton at Charlton
Tom Sutton has great range from space heroes to terror tales. His most Lovecraftian examples of his great Horror art came in the early to Read More
The Supernatural Mystery – A Quintessential Library
Mystery fiction and Horror fiction are fruit from the same tree. The Gothics of the 1760-1820s spawned many different varieties of tales. Some were actually Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XII
The Guardian of the Vault “The Guardian of the Vault” by Paul Spencer (Years’ Best Fantasy 2, 1976) is a story chosen by Lin Carter Read More
The Ghoul Gallery – A Golden Age Gathering
I stole the title of Hugh B. Cave’s “The Ghoul Gallery” (Weird Tales, June 1932) because it makes my point nicely. The story is about Read More
Carl Jacobi, Master of the Weird Tale – Part 1
Carl Jacobi (1908-1997) has been called a Weird Tales also-ran but that is to miss so much about this fascinating writer. He was very much Read More
Imperial Gothic: The Best Horror Stories of Rudyard Kipling
So Much More Than Just The Jungle Book Imperial Gothic could only mean The Best Horror Stories of Rudyard Kipling. The word ‘Kipling’ is enough Read More
More Horror Classics in Black & White
After the Edgar Allan Poe Post, I wanted to do More Horror Classics in Black & White. Warren and Skywald obliged nicely. Poe wasn’t the Read More
Weird Tales Day
Yesterday was Weird Tales Day. The one hundredth anniversary of the first issue of Weird Tales hitting the newsstands. The first Pulp magazine dedicated to Read More