Sonnets of the Midnight Hours by Donald Wandrei
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours by Donald Wandrei is one of the reasons I love the old Farnsworth Wright Weird Tales. Poetry in Weird Tales Read More
Tag: Weird Tales
Joseph Doolin: Jungle Cover Artist
Joseph Doolin (1896-1967) is my favorite Weird Tales artist if you are talking realistic style. I love Lee Brown Coye, Boris Dolgov, Hannes Bok, Virgil Read More
A. W. Bernal: The Man Who Was Two Men
For A. W. Bernal, fame was localized. What I mean is for a short time, to a small audience he was very famous but after Read More
Link: Cover Art: Branding Your Mythos
H.P. Lovecraft is often touted as one of the Big Three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. He was Read More
Lovecraftian Stories You Might Have Missed
Notice the “Lovecraftian stories”, not “Cthulhu Mythos stories” of the title. If you have been at this Mythos thing as long as I have (actively Read More
I Didn’t Know They Wrote Pulp!
I didn’t know they wrote Pulp! was one of the comments we have received from our first podcast. As discussed, many writers started in the Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 2: Satha the Giant Snake
If you missed last time… Satha the giant snake of the Hyborian Age is as iconic as the other frequent Howard baddie, the gorilla. Satha Read More
The Trial of Robot A-1
1939 saw the trial of two robots: first, Adam Link and then Robot A-1. It was a strange time for jurisprudence. Mechanical men were filling Read More
Frank Belknap Long – Part Two: The 1940s
If you missed Part One… The 1940s saw Frank Belnkap Long move into new areas as a professional writer. He is moving away from Lovecraft Read More
Frank Belknap Long – Part One: 1920-1939
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) had a career that spanned seven decades. He began in the pages of Weird Tales, and was actually H. P. Lovecraft’s Read More