I have been posting on the fanzine bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror, mystery, sci-fi, western, and weird...
Tag - Fritz Leiber
This time I look at a fanzine that just recently ended, The Paperback Fanatic. Produced by Justin Marriott, it focused on, of course, paperback book collecting...
In 2025, writer-artist Mike Mignola did an original hardcover graphic novel, Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. Not set in the...
Here is another review of one of the “Big Book of” volumes edited by Otto Penzler of Mysterious Bookstores and published by Vintage Crime/Black...
In my prior posting on the Hellboy-related comics, I bemoaned the fact that it looked like we would not see any more titles, though there were several plot...
I’ve always felt it important for creative people to recognize their inspirations. Some are good at that, others not so much. An excellent example of...
In the world of sword-and-sorcery fiction, one of the best-known series is Fritz Leiber‘s (1910-92) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Leiber, along with...
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...