Plant Monsters of the 1950s
If you missed the 1940s… With the Plant Monsters of the 1950s we see the last of the Pulps and the transition to digest-sized SF. Read More
Tag: Fantastic Adventures
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents II
Last year I wrote about “Snake Gods and Were-Serpents” with stories like Frank Belknap Long’s “The Were-Snake” and A. Merritt’s “The Snake Mother”. Turns out Read More
Druidic Magic in the Pulps
There are exceptions to the villain rule, of course. Bran Mak Morn, the Robert E. Howard character, is not afraid of Gonar’s magic. In “The Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1940s
If you missed the last one… The 1940s saw a variety of Science Fiction and Horror magazines use plants in different ways. Sometimes they were Read More
The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories: 1929-1939
If you missed the Plant Monsters of Astounding… The Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories (from 1929-1939) give us the story of two editors: T. O’Conor Read More
Giant and Killer Insects in the Pulps II
If you missed the last one…. Giant and Killer Insects in the Pulps are one of Clare Winger Harris’s classic Science Fiction themes from 1931. Read More
Fantastic Adventures and A. Merritt
A. Merritt inspired a sub-genre of Science Fantasy we might call “Fantastic Adventures”. His placing of his novels like The Face in the Abyss and Read More
The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe
If you missed the last one… The amazing adventures of Buster Crabbe did not begin in the comics but in the movie serials. Larry “Buster” Read More
Henry Hasse Part 2: 1950s and Beyond
If you missed the first part… The second half of Hasse’s career showed moments of production followed by large gaps. He wrote his only novel Read More
Vikings on a Rampage!
Vikings on a rampage always means fun. The idea of a barbarian warrior suddenly showing up in a shopping mall or on the White House Read More