December’s Shivery Hand Upon Us
December’s shivery hand upon us and you know what that means…ghost stories. Unlike my fellow North Americans I do not subscribe to October as the Read More
Tag: Algernon Blackwood
Manly Wade Wellman’s Werewolves
Manly Wade Wellman wrote hundreds of fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters including werewolves. He wrote of them early in the pages of Weird Tales 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
Neils Orson the Ghost Hunter
The 1930’s was the last great period of Spiritualism in Britain and America. Houdini and other defrauders were busy debunking the phonies and relegating the Read More
Link: The Brink of Madness
“Should the writer of the ghost story himself believe in ghosts?” asked Reverend Montague Summers in his introduction to The Supernatural Omnibus (the only other Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 1
Critics of horror fiction have labeled Lovecraft’s brand of storytelling “cosmic” horror to differentiate it from the regular legions of werewolves and murderers that filled Read More
How To Become a Mythos Icon
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas, a mandala of Cthulhu Mythos fiction featuring a Read More
Who Was the First Ghostbreaker? A Conversation with Christopher Lyons
G. W. Thomas: Who do you consider the first Ghostbreaker? Christopher Lyons: Bill Murray? But seriously, folks. Samuel Warren began to lay down some of Read More
Elliott O’Donnell: Ghost Hunter and Author
It is hard to imagine how big a writer Elliott O’Donnell was in his day. He is practically forgotten today outside of scholarly circles. This Read More
The Hound of Death: The Supernatural Works of Agatha Christie
THE INVISIBLE WORLD It is natural for readers of supernatural fiction to wonder what beliefs an author might hold. Do they believe in ghosts? Vampires? Read More