Weird Tales TV: The Devil’s Ticket
If you missed the last one… “The Devil’s Ticket” (Weird Tales, September 1944) is that dusty old chestnut, a Deal-With-the-Devil tale. Robert Bloch gives it Read More
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Weird Tales TV: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
If you missed the last one… “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” (Weird Tales, July 1943, also in The Mystery Companion, 1943) is in some ways Read More
Weird Tales TV: The Extra Passenger
If you missed the last one… We continue out look at Weird Tales stories that made it onto television with another episode of Boris Karloff’s Read More
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
The Robots of Strange Adventures
If you missed the last one… Strange Adventures was a DC Science Fiction anthology comic that ran from August-September 1950 to October-November 1973 and two Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Frozen in Fear!
If you missed the last one… The strange Northern often features something from the past frozen in ice to be released on unsuspecting people. The Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: Cube From Space
If you missed the last one… Leigh Brackett was the queen of Space. There are so many good stories to choose from but I decided Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: The World With a Thousand Moons
If you missed the last one…. Last time we looked at an unusual tale from Henry Kuttner who didn’t write many space operas. This time Read More
Conan vs. Werewolves
Conan vs. Werewolves is a problematic title. Conan as Robert E. Howard wrote him never met an actual werewolf. Howard wrote only six pieces that Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More