Among his Weird Tales colleagues, Clark Ashton Smith was most clearly the heir to the poetic wordplay of Lord Dunsany. Known as one of the “big three” at Tales alongside Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, Smith’s prolific output…
On October 30, 1938, America was listening to the radio. That was the collective entertainment of the day. October 30th was a bit different. The Martians landed. Estimates are around 6 million people listened to the Martians landing. At least…
For centuries, European maps showed you islands that weren’t there. Not undiscovered islands. Islands that did not exist. One of these was Hy-Brasil, said to be located in the Atlantic west of Ireland. Maps began showing Hy-Brasil in the 14th…
H.P. Lovecraft… Arguably the king of weird fiction – and definitely the king of eldritch horror! His 1931 novella At The Mountains Of Madness is easily one of the eeriest ever. Lovecraft mastered the art of making you feel small…
You type in your search query. If you can wade past all the sponsored results and AI slop you may find yourself stepping into another world – we’ll call it “Internet Archeology.” An old forum. Could have been about some…
You see a map and you are looking at a place – a place you can go to, visit, see and smell. A place. But maps (and we are talking about those older nice foldable paper ones) are snapshots of…
Way back before the dawn of the Marvel and DC movie universes another visual universe existed – living on cheap paper and designed to be read and shared with all your friends. We’ve all seen these covers at some point…
Sometimes a story reads like it is remembered rather than written. Before the fantasy genre got filled with maps and magic systems and lore, Lord Dunasy was building worlds from moonlight and myths. Monumental writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and…