To Kiss or Kill? The War on Sentiment
Unless you’ve read L. Sprague de Camp’s biography of H.P. Lovecraft or Sam Moskowitz’s Under the Moons of Mars (1970), you might not know that Read More
Impossible Crimes: The Horror-Stained Mystery
Impossible Crimes are Mystery stories that appear to be supernatural but turn out to be explainable. These stories have a way of shoving people off Read More
Top Ten Favorite Edgar Rice Burroughs Monsters
My top ten monsters from Edgar Rice Burroughs don’t come from Tarzan. The vine-swinger had some great adventures but for the most part the most Read More
Careful What You Wish For III: I Want a New Genre
One piece of advice most writing books make is that a new writer should familiarize themselves with their chosen genre so they don’t repeat worn Read More
Link: Do You Believe in Ghosts?
“Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I’m afraid of them.” Thus is the modern attitude toward all things ghostly, as stated by the Marquise Read More
Rhoda Broughton, Niece to Nightmares
Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) was the niece of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, the dark prince of horror writers. It should be no surprise that she should Read More
A Night in the Lonesome October: A Game
A Night in the Lonesome October is a 1993 novel by Roger Zelazny. Some Octobers I like to play a game with it. The book Read More
Top Ten Favorite Robert E. Howard Monsters
My top ten favorite Robert E. Howard monsters appear here chronologically because I can’t bring myself to pick a number one favorite. It was hard Read More
Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos
Conan, the black-haired, red-skinned Cimmerian, has become over the last fifty years a different fellow than the legendary swordsman who walked off the pages of Read More
The Missing Miss Bartendale
The Missing Miss Bartendale of the 1942 film version of The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) is typical of the changing Read More