David Henry – New Pulp Tales

The Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter Four

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 Featured, Sword and Sorcery David Henry, Sword and Sorcery, The Book of the Prophet Joshua, Weird Fiction

For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2, 3. There is a long, high hill in Hadochee. The people there call it Flower Mountain. Once a boy named Joshua had lived

The Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter Three

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Featured, Sword and Sorcery David Henry, Sword and Sorcery, The Book of the Prophet Joshua, Weird Fiction

For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1, 2. The prophet stood on a high bluff. A hot summer wind stirred the trees below, their myriad hues of green shifting like

The Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter Two

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 Featured, Sword and Sorcery David Henry, Sword and Sorcery, The Book of the Prophet Joshua, Weird Fiction

For earlier chapters in The Book of the Prophet Joshua, look here: 1. Despite the unholy terror which woke the goats with the morning, the flock was calm and compliant as Adam led them out

The Book of the Prophet Joshua – Chapter One

May 10, 2023May 10, 2023 Featured, Weird Fiction David Henry, The Book of the Prophet Joshua, Weird Fiction

It was a hot day on the western plains. A goatherd struggled up the crumbling side of a high, windswept mesa, his flock far below, grazing peacefully in the sparse vegetation. As he reached the

The Dreams in the Witch House

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight David Henry, Guillermo Del Toro, H.P. Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, The Dreams in the Witch House, Weird Fiction, Weird Tales

The second Lovecraft adaptation in the Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology due to come out on Netflix later this month, has its roots in the world of genuine science. In late

Del Toro’s Model

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight David Henry, Guillermo Del Toro, H.P. Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, Pickman's Model, Weird Fiction, Weird Tales

Spooky season is upon us, and with it a slew of new ghosts and goblins on the big and small screens. Among them is Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology set to

The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing IV – The Thing

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, John W Campbell, Shoggoth, The Thing, The Thing from Another World, Who Goes There?

Nothing reveals an artist’s talent quite like telling a story which has been told before. Lovecraft began a theme of alien Antarctic horror, and Campbell spun those elements into a new narrative. The Thing from

The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing III – The Thing from Another World

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, John W Campbell, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, The Thing, The Thing from Another World, Who Goes There?

Where John Carpenter fans might find Who Goes There? familiar, like coming home after a long absence, its 1951 adaptation is more like viewing the story through a funhouse mirror: anything recognizable is distorted, and

The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing II – Who Goes There?

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, John W Campbell, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, Shoggoth, The Thing, Who Goes There?

In his long journey home, Odysseus was forced to pass between the fearsome monster, Scylla, and the vast, ship-swallowing whirlpool, Charybdis. A similar danger confronts anyone tasked with describing the origins of John W. Campbell’s

The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing I – At the Mountains of Madness

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, Shoggoth, The Thing

While magazines made of literal pulp are long gone, the spirit of the pulps is like a good movie monster–it just refuses to die. H. P. Lovecraft in particular has had a long undeath, spawning