Karl Edward Wagner’s 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels Ranked
By Will Oliver
Karl Edward Wagner published his famous list of 13 Best Supernatural Horror Novels in Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine in the May-June 1983 issue. There is no indication that he rank ordered these stories. I decided to read all 13 for myself, rank order them, and provide both Wagner’s short review along with my own. Continue reading
Today, April 7, marks Henry Kuttner’s birthday (1915-1958). Kuttner is one of the most revered authors in these here parts. I’ve been in a Weird Tales kind of mood lately, probably because it the Weird Tales centennial. I’m going to try to get some posts up about that soon.
But I digress.
For today’s post, I’m going to look at one of Kuttner’s early stories for Weird Tales, “The Jest of Droom-Avista”. Kuttner was still learning the ropes on this one, so it’s a little rough around the edges. It was first published in the August 1937 issue.
The basic plot goes like this: Continue reading
Today, in observance of the birthday of Robert Bloch (1917-1994), we’re going to look at a “collaboration” between Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Bloch, “The Lighthouse”..
I put the word “collaboration” in quotes because what this really is, is a completion of a fragment Poe left unfinished. Not entirely unlike the “posthumous collaborations” of Derleth and Lovecraft, except that Bloch acknowledges he finished this story at the urging of the leading Poe scholar at the time.
“The Lighthouse” was first published in the January-February 1953 issue of Fantastic. I read it in the paperback collection Pleasant Dreams – Nightmares. (Note: the contents of this volume differ from the Arkham House collection of the same title. Of the four stories blurbed on the back cover, only one is actually in this book.) Continue reading
She has to report to the Robertson Unit in Abilene in a few days for processing.
I’ll be accompanying her, although I’ll stay at the hotel while that’s going on.
Once the new employee paperwork is done, we’ll go to where she’ll actually be working.
As you might can guess, there are some big changes going on behind the scenes here at Adventures Fantastic, which is why I’ve not posted anything for nearly two months. I didn’t realize it had been that long. I’ve also been focusing on fiction writing. More on that in a later post.
I’ll try to get a few things up over the next few days, a birthday post on Robert Bloch and another on Henry Kuttner and a guest post from Will Oliver. I’m about halfway through a collection for review, but that one is a few days out.