Uh, story that is. A five-way story.Get your minds out the gutter. This isn’t that kind of blog. It’s suitable for the whole family. Yesterday’s post not withstanding. And you guys in the back knock off the giggling. Geez, what I put up with. Anyway, the story I’m talking about is “The Challenge from Beyond”, […]
In addition to looking at Bradbury’s short stories “The Illustrated Woman” and “The Illustrated Man” in the previous post, I wanted to look at a pair of stories that might not be familiar to many of you. Those stories are “The Pendulum” and “Pendulum”. The former was written by Bradbury alone; the latter in collaboration […]
Today, April 5, is the birthday of Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Bloch was one of the best writers of horror, suspense, crime, fantasy, and science fiction of the 20th Century. Sadly, his excellent body of work will probably always be overshadowed by his most famous novel, and the basis of the Alfred Hitchcock film of the […]
This is the third of a three part series of guest posts by John Bullard. Before I turn the blog over to John, I would like to take a moment and thank him for all the work he has done not only researching and writing this series, but his editing of the Howard letters for […]
What follows is a guest post by John Bullard. It is the first of three parts and contains spoilers for Robert E. Howard’s “Beyond the Black River”. Robert E. Howard’s Conan story, “Beyond the Black River” is considered to be one of his best stories by his fans. It tells of an attack by Howard’s […]
Well, sort of. Merritt’s birthday was actually yesterday, but classes started the day before yesterday. I was kinda busy. Abraham Merritt was born on January 20, in Beverly, New Jersey. He died in 1943. Merritt was arguably the most highly regarded fantasy author of his day, with a fantasy magazine named for him after his […]
Today is Frank Belknap Long’s birthday. He was born on Arpil 27, 1901, for those of you who are reading this on a day other than when I posted it. Since it’s late, that’s probably most of you. Long was a prolific writer of weird fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and Gothic romance. (Charles Rutledge discussed […]