Link: “Spider Mansion” and the Old Hand
Fritz Leiber was an innovator. If he wrote in a genre, he always tried to do something to improve that type of storytelling. This desire Read More
Tag: August Derleth
Link: Literary Slumming: August Derleth and Mark R. Schorer
It is easy for readers like myself to forget that Weird Tales writers and other pulpsters had literary ambitions. Dwelling in my fan-boy bubble, I Read More
Link: The Trail of Lovecraft: Part Two: Recycling the Mythos
In my last column, I talked about how J. Sheridan Le Fanu influenced H.P. Lovecraft, even though he never read the Irish master’s many great 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
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
The Werewolves of Weird Tales – 1936-1954
Continuing our list of great werewolf stories from “The Unique Magazine”. As the Pulp moved into the 1940s and the editorship of Dorothy McIlwraith the Read More
Heralded by Blood and Other Tales
Jack Mackenzie’s collection of Dark Fantasy stories is now available from Rage Machine Books. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G8HHWC7 From the book’s introduction: If you ever feel that you Read More
Ithaqua: The Wendigo and the Walker on the Winds
August Derleth has been praised or reviled as an editor and posthumous collaborator of H. P. Lovecraft but I think Mythos fans often forget he Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly #2 is HERE!
The second issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! Our second issue features an interview with BYRON CRAFT about his novel THE CRY OF CTHULHU Read More
DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY #2: Coming Soon!
There’s still a little bit of summer left, but not much. Fall is creeping around the corner like some shambling monster ready to pounce unexpectedly. Read More