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I have written nonfiction for Black Gate magazine for over ten years on science-fiction and fantasy topics. I’ve also contributed to other websites and magazine. Currently I am writing articles for Goodman Games as part of the web-presence for the magazine Tales From the Magician’s Skull.

Newest Articles

• Jirel of Joiry: First Heroine of Sword-and-Sorcery
• The Japanese Giant Monster Golden Era Ends: Space Amoeba (1970)
• A Year in Quarantine With the Criterion Channel
• Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Pulps: The Expansion of Genre Fiction
• Leigh Brackett, The Planetary Romantic
• A Black Wind Blowing: Robert E. Howard and The Weird Menace Horror Pulps

Article Selection

• 300th Post: A Survey of My Major Topics (A good place to start browsing my Black Gate articles)
• The Complete Carpenter: A John Carpenter Career Retrospective
• A History of Godzilla on Film
• The Martian Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Pellucidar Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Beyond the Farthest Star by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Peplum Populist, a series of articles on sword-and-sandal films
• Q&A With Writer, Director, Producer Kenneth Johnson (The Incredible Hulk, V: The Original Miniseries)
• The Weird Inner World of Cyrus Teed and the Koreshan Unity
• One Million Years B.C. on Blu-ray
• My Favorite Mummy: Hammer’s 1959 The Mummy
• 50th Anniversary of The Twilight Zone
• The Animated The Return of the King (1980)