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sThis is a guest post from Deuce: Manly Wade Wellman led a helluva life. Born in 1903 in what is now known as Angola, he was made the adopted son of a tribal chief thanks to his father’s medical expertise. Manly’s father was not only a doctor but also a published author and all-around man […]
Sensor Sweep: Lovecraft Manga, Manly Wade Wellman, D.C. Comics
Monday , 26, May 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWeird Westerns (Crime Reads): The weird western is nothing new. Since at least 1932, with Robert E. Howard’s “The Horror from the Mound,” writers have been combining fantasy, science-fiction, and horror with the Old West in novels, stories, comics, and films. The genre built to a crescendo in the 1980s. The last major iteration I […]
Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Fire in the Bones – James Alderdice Hell hath no Fury like a Dark Goddess Life is good for Gathelaus, he won back his crown, his kingdom and his woman – too […]
Sensor Sweep: Nephilim RPG, Gardner F. Fox, H. Rider Haggard
Monday , 19, May 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWeird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): Nictzin Dyalhis (1873?-1942)had his first story in Weird Tales in April 1925. So did Donald Edward Keyhoe (1897-1988). Dyalhis’ story was of course “When the Green Star Waned,” a science-fantasy set in the solar system of the future. Keyhoe’s story was “The Grim Passenger,” a tale of Egyptian archaeology and […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 17 May 2025
Saturday , 17, May 2025 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Dragon’s Breath (The Shadow’s Dragon #5) – Dustin Porta and D. K. Holmberg Escape the past or protect the future? Treylen and his dragon, Rime, have left the assassin’s life behind […]
Cinema (Art of the Movies): We all love rooting for our screen heroes but they would be nothing without a great villain to go up against. Here is the second half of our countdown of forty of the finest. Comic Books (Conan Chronology): I detailed in “How Conan Conquered the Comics Code” how The Savage […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 10 May 2025
Sunday , 11, May 2025 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Ace in the Hole (Black Badge #3) – Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle On the run and out of time… Everything changed back in Crescent City when Crowley made his choice […]
Weird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): The illustration on the cover of Weird Tales for April 1925 is for “When the Green Star Waned” by Nictzin Dyalhis. The artist was Andrew Brosnatch. It shows a man who appears to be falling into a mass of aliens that have invaded Earth. In actuality, the aliens have […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 3 May 2025
Sunday , 4, May 2025 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Able-Bodied Soldier #4 – J. N. Chaney and Jason Anspach Suit up and move out. Ten years after saving humanity from the Thephari threat, legendary MOCOM instructor Titus Briggs discovers his elite […]
Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold
Thursday , 1, May 2025 Fiction Leave a commentThis is a guest post from Richard: “In short, I am an ignoramus, but pretty well for a yeoman.” This testament of John Ridd, delivered at the outset of R D Blackmore’s LORNA DOONE, could be accorded to Gullivar Jones. The eponymous hero of Edwin Lester Arnold’s planetary adventure of 1905. And with equal […]