Tellers of Weird Tales

A few days after I wrote my last entry, I wondered: just what did the Founding Fathers read? Is it possible that they did actually read what...

On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will reach its 250th anniversary. A century ago, in our sesquicentennial year of 1926, Weird T...

Happy New Year! Twenty-six doesn't have the ring of twenty-five. For being an even number, it's kind of odd. But in 2026, we will ce...

Galaxy Science Fiction , January 1956, with cover art by Emsh . We might think that January 1956 was too late for a Christmas cover, but I b...

An essay about God, Christmas, and the birth of Jesus Christ is a strange place to find a discussion of H.P. Lovecraft , but that's wher...

Today is the first day of winter and the day and the earth sleep. Gil Gerard died last week, on December 16, 2025, at age eighty-two. If yo...

I read this summer Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Anne Jacobsen (2011; 2012). It's an int...