On An Underwood No. 5

As the John Hay Library at Brown University continues to digitize its collection, and place them online, interesting little tidbits are reve...

Seabury Quinn—whose longer tales I simply cannot wade through—is the perfect popular ideal—those who differ from him have just so much les...

Julius Schwartz In 1932, teenage fan Julius Schwartz became involved with the Science Fiction Digest , a high-end fanzine (which in 19...

Now I remember those old women’s words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter’s tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by ni...

H.P. Lovecraft As a young man H. P. Lovecraft would have thrilled to the sword-and-planet adventures of John Carter in Under the Moo...

Not every letter from every pulp writer that survives has been published; many remain on the open market and in private hands, coming up...

Yes, there was a cow. I saw the critter. Her name was Delhi, and hump shouldered to suggest Indian blood—Asian-Indian, I mean.—E. Hoffmann ...

WT March 1936 Kuttner had just broken into Weird Tales in the March 1936 issue with “The Graveyard Rats,” but Lovecraft quickly adopted...

Dec. '34 WT Jirel’s first adventure was quickly followed up by a second; “Black God’s Shadow” appeared in the Dec 1934 Weird Tales. ...

The peak was reached in 1933, when he handed me something by one C. L. Moore.  “Read this!” he commanded, the moment I stepped into the n...

This theory is not generally agreed to, but I scarcely think that it has ever been disproved, and it was upon this that my story “The Lost ...