Heralded by Blood and Other Tales

August 7, 2018 mdjackson 0

Jack Mackenzie’s collection of Dark Fantasy stories is now available from Rage Machine Books. From the book’s introduction: If you ever feel that you are doing well as a writer, I would recommend re-reading all of your old short stories. That will put a pin in any inflated sense of Read More

J. Sheridan Le Fanu & the Critics: Seen Through Other Eyes

August 2, 2018 GW Thomas 0

If you read anything by Jack Sullivan or Mike Ashley you will see that today J. Sheridan Le Fanu has fans. Horror fans. He has been acknowledged as the first man to make a living writing horror stories. He was the linchpin between the clunky old Gothics of Radcliffe and Read More

We’re all Ed Wood Now

July 31, 2018 mdjackson 0

My wife and I recently purchased a big screen smart tv. What makes it so smart is beyond me, but with it we can watch Netflix and Youtube videos. Well, with Youtube videos streaming across my big screen, what else would I watch but Star Trek fan films? I spent Read More

SDCC 2018

July 21, 2018 mdjackson 0

In case you weren’t aware of it, this weekend is San Diego Comic Con weekend, which is always a favourite of mine because of all the cool trailers that drop during the convention. Since we are not at SDCC and there’s not a lot of point trying to compete with Read More

Weird Tales Classics: “The Tree-Men of M’Bwa”

July 19, 2018 GW Thomas 0

“The Tree-Men of M’Bwa” by Donald Wandrei is one of those wonderful Weird Tales gems that I love to happen upon. The story was published in February 1932. It has only been reprinted in Wandrei collections, which surprises me. The story is so good, so weird in the true Lovecraftian Read More

The Curse of the Monolith

July 14, 2018 GW Thomas 0

Howard purists may hate every word I am about to say. While I will always agree that Robert E. Howard’s stories were the best of the Conan canon (he wrote some potboilers too), I do have some favs amongst the Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp pastiches. One such Read More

The Children of Dracula – Part Two: The Door of the Unreal

July 14, 2018 GW Thomas 0

Hollywood changes everything. A series of successful films and the commonly-held view of things changes. ‘Vampires turning to ash in sunlight’ is a good example. In Dracula, the Count can walk in the daylight but he hasn’t the power to turn into animals or smoke. This literary rigor mortis also Read More

The Children of Dracula – Part One: Brood of the Witch-Queen

July 14, 2018 GW Thomas 0

In “The Supernatural Horror in Literature” H. P. Lovecraft selects three novels as the offspring of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: “…Dracula evoked many similar novels of supernatural horror, among which the best are perhaps The Beetle, by Richard Marsh, Brood of the Witch-Queen, by “Sax Rohmer” (Arthur Sarsfield Ward), and The Read More

The Vampire As Lothario

July 11, 2018 GW Thomas 0

I love vampires. I hate Anne Rice. Not the person Anne Rice. I don’t know her. But the institution of Anne Rice. To be perfectly accurate: I hate Anne Rice vampires. I’ve always been of the Weird Tales/Kolchak the Nightstalker vampire variety. They’re bad. You stake’em, holy water’em, burn’em with Read More

Cormac Mac Art: The Comics

July 8, 2018 GW Thomas 0

The Savage Sword of Conan served up a monthly dose of Conan the Cimmerian along with secondary tales of Robert E. Howard’s other characters such as Solomon Kane, King Kull and Bran Mak Morn, plus the Howard/Roy Thomas amalgam Red Sonja. In the 235 issues, from August 1974 to July Read More

“The Tomb of Sarah” and Seabury Quinn

July 8, 2018 GW Thomas 0

The Jules De Grandin stories by Seabury Quinn were not innovative so much as reactionary. Anyone familiar with the Horror and Mystery of the previous generation can easily glean where the author found inspiration. Quinn’s magic lies not in creating a Cthulhu Mythos, but in taking a fully modern approach Read More

Dark Worlds Issue #4 is here!

April 9, 2018 mdjackson 0

The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed hibernating. We’re very much awake now for Spring of 2018, and we managed to give the old Quarterly a bit of a new look! Plus Read More

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