A Science Fiction Double Feature
The iconic lyrics to the opening song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Science Fiction Double Feature” does a great job of summarizing the favorite Read More
Tag: H. G. Wells
Four Color H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells seems like a natural for comic book adaptation. He inspired so many Science Fiction ideas and the comics use all of them Read More
Robert E. Howard’s Bran Mak Morn in the Comics
Robert E. Howard created Bran Mak Morn from flint and blood. The tragic chief of the Picts fights a losing battle against the Romans. Even Read More
Giants of Science Fiction
Giants of Science Fiction can mean either the greats who wrote SF, or as in this case, the giants that appear in Science Fiction tales. Read More
The Day of the Animals: Nature Horror of the 1970s
I’d love to tell you that Arthur Machen’s horror classic, The Terror (1917) was responsible for all those “Killer” movies of the 1970s. I’d love Read More
Naked Jungle: Leiningen Versus the Ants
Stephenson’s classic adventure tale of a man fighting an army of ants was required reading in high school for years. It is an example of Read More
Cephalopods Attack!
H. P. Lovecraft certainly did his bit for promoting tentacles in horror fiction. But he wasn’t the first by any stretch of the imagination. M. Read More
Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
The Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
Monster Island: Two Classics
The idea of being trapped on an island with some kind of terror is not a new theme. But of all those Dr. Moreau scenarios Read More