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
Tag: Jules de Grandin
Monster Hall of Fame: The Severed Hand
The Addams Family and its close competitor, The Munsters, were shows based on Horror clichés. By 1965 the idea of a vampire, a Frankenstein monster, Read More
The Curse of Jules de Grandin: Pierre d’Artois
The Curse of Jules de Grandin haunted one man: E. Hoffman Price (1898-1988) and his creation, Pierre d”Artois. The success of a character in a Read More
I Steal Your Blood! Doctors of Horror!
One of the standard scenarios in Pulp horror magazines is the person stuck in a Gothic house, that either through tricks or merely atmosphere, seems Read More
Ten Little Known Ghostbreaker Facts
10. Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist started out as the idea for a ghostbreaker novel: “I set out to write a supernatural detective story…” Blatty said. Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 6
This post is brought to you by Monster by G. W. Thomas. Taken from the pages of this blog, Monster offers up posts about Science Read More
The Cases of Jules De Grandin – Part 5
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures by G. W. Thomas. This companion collection to Strange Detectives features occult detectives in the Old Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 4
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun II by G. W. Thomas, a Cthulhu Mythos collection with a difference. Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 3
This post is brought to you by Strange Detectives by G. W. Thomas. This collection features the strangest detectives you have ever met. Victorian sleuths Read More