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sRobert E. Howard’s Prehistoric Beasts: The Terror Bird
Sunday , 4, August 2024 Weird Tales 3 CommentsPrehistoric animals appear in Robert E. Howard’s fiction as intrusions of creatures from past eons. They are a way to enhance the strangeness of a situation. One creature used more than once was the Terror Bird. Terror Bird is a loose term used for predatory flightless birds of the Cenozoic Era. The dinosaur extinction opened […]
The Arkham House streak continues with August Derleth as “Stephen Grendon’s” Mr. George and Other Odd Persons. For some reason August Derleth had eleven stories in the mid and late 1940s under the Grendon name. A look at the Jaffery & Cook Weird Tales index shows it was not a case of both a Derleth […]
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