Link: Your Elder Sign Is In My Eye: or, Advice For Writers Of Cthulhu Mythos Fiction
A sign of true cultural phenomenon seems to be that many people want to copy its masters endlessly. Conan the Cimmerian. Sherlock Holmes. Dracula. The Read More
Tag: Sherlock Holmes
The Scale of the Fantastic
The following is presented partly as an explanation of what I see as valid material for this blog. Do you think of Sherlock Holmes as Read More
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 2
This post is brought to you by the Wild Inc. series by Jack Mackenzie. Enjoy Pulp tales of a band of heroes who defeat the Read More
The Genuine Article: Detective Comics
Comics based on famous detective characters are not uncommon. Sherlock Holmes alone has dozens in many languages. But what is rarer, and the focus of Read More
The Freelance Ghostbreaker: John Silence
The occult detective tradition has encompassed characters as famous as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Van Helsing. But the most influential fictional detective to take on Read More
The Psychic Doctors: The First Ghostbreakers
In the Middle Ages if one were assailed by the forces of the supernatural, help was as close as the nearest priest. In the 16th Read More
Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
Jules de Grandin, Pulp Superstar
Who was the most popular author of Weird Tales in its four decades in publication, from 1923 to 1954 ? H. P. Lovecraft, the creator Read More
The Last Case of Jules deGrandjerque
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, does not always play out when the imitation proves to be a satire. I was surprised to hear Read More
Sherlock Holmes Parodies
Every time you turn around someone comes out with their own Sherlock Holmes novel these days. But almost from the very beginning other writers have Read More