Tellers of Weird Tales

I have wondered about the first psychopathic killer and the first totalitarian in literature. I have candidates for both now. First the kil...

Vampires and Body Snatchers On Friday I wrote about a few science fiction movies from the 1950s. I could hardly do justice to them all....

Science Fiction Movies: Boom Margaret Atwood famously (or infamously) said that science fiction is "talking squids from outer spa...

Hope, Fear, and The Science Fiction Monster According to Wikipedia , the last Universal monster movie of the 1940s was Abbott and Costell...

The End of the Cryptid I'm looking for the monster of the twenty-first century. By using the Cat in the Hat's process of calculat...

The Creature, The Cryptozoologist, and Lost Worlds In 1954, Universal Pictures released  Creature from the Black Lagoon and a new monste...

Universal Monsters Live So, I'm following three threads to get to the monster of the twenty-first century: The Horror Monster , w...