I have been posting on the fanzine bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror/mystery/sci-fi/western/weird...
Category - Review
Recently I reviewed The Wages of Syn by John L. French. Set in Harbor City, it stars Jericho Syn, alias The Scarecrow, who provides “unofficial justice” in...
We now get the next volume collecting stories of pulp detective Jigger Masters, created by author and editor Anthony Rud (1893-1942). This character had an...
After being out of print for decades, the legendary “lost” issue of Spicy Zeppelin Stories is back. Sort of. Back in in 1970 when Odyssey...
I am way behind on posting about the excellent fanzine Occult Detective Quarterly from Sam Gafford‘s Ulthar Press. As someone who enjoys occult-detective...
For over 50 years Ken Faig Jr. has been a leading scholar of H.P. Lovecraft. Two of his focuses have been on the ancestry of Lovecraft himself, and on...
I recently got the third volume of Madame Storey stories from Steeger Books: The Under Dogs: The Complete Cases of Madame Storey, Vol. 3. The series was...
In a recent post I mentioned Robert H. Barlow (1918-51), who at a young age started corresponding with H.P. Lovecraft, striking up a friendship with him. Later...
Soon after getting the sixth Doc Vandal novel we get the next one, The Skyscraper Thief. This series by Dave Robinson is a Doc Savage pastiche. Doc Vandal is...
Continuing with my deeper review of the Hellboy universe of stories, I return to the Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. series with a second posting. After the main...