Comic Book Occult Detectives: 1930s
This post is brought to you by Strange Detectives by G. W. Thomas, featuring four cases by the Edwardian era detective, Richard Delamare. Along with Read More
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The Ghostbreakers: Three Famous Fakes
Ghostbreaker tales don’t always play fair. Take these three famous fakes for instance. They appear to be tales of the occult, with ghosts and mediums, Read More
Plant Monsters in Movies & Television
Plant Monsters in Movies & Television start in the 1930s and go to the present day with The Last of Us. We all enjoy watching Read More
Blithe Spirits
I recently watched Blithe Spirit (2020) and was struck by how much of the Ghost Story genre is actually in this comedy. The film version Read More
The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror
The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror (2000) was Edmond Hamilton’s seventh collection. Like his first, it was intended to present Hamilton as horror Read More
The Dweller in the Tomb: Mythos Mimic II
“The Dweller in the Tomb” by Henry Kuttner is a Mythos mimic of another kind. In the last installment, Frederick Cowles’ “The House on the Read More
Let’s Haunt a House: Young Ghostbreakers
A Long Tradition “Let’s Haunt a House” by Manly Wade Wellman is an interesting middle stop in a line that runs to this day. Boys’ 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
Bob Hope: Afraid of Ghosts?
Bob Hope made The Ghostbreakers in 1940 with Paulette Goddard. His comic book The Adventures of Bob Hope (that ran from February 1950 to February 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