Mad Scientists, A Criteria
Mad scientists got their big start with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) though the wicked or foolish creator can be found in myth and legend. The Read More
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Science Fiction Across the Genres
Science Fiction runs the gamut as it burns across the genres. You might think an SF story has to be robots, spaceships, time travel or Read More
A Night in the Lonesome October: A Game
A Night in the Lonesome October is a 1993 novel by Roger Zelazny. Some Octobers I like to play a game with it. The book Read More
The Gothic in Sword & Sorcery
Pulp Origins Sword & Sorcery, from its very first story in 1929 was steeped in the Gothic. Robert E. Howard published “The Shadow Kingdom” in Read More
Favorite Frankenstein Covers 1945-2015
If you subscribe to this blog, you will have received a crappy version of this piece. My Yoast Plugin ate it before it went out 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
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
Robots Before the Pulps
The robot is an icon of Science Fiction, alongside the spaceship, the alien and the time machine. Of all these familiar themes, the robot is Read More
The Monster Genre II
My obsession with monsters is well known. You can dribble on about H. G. Wells and Socialism, his work for Humankind until you’re blue in Read More