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twentypercentcooler:

bigredrobot:

twinfountain:

aninventoryofthepossible:

aplacebothwonderfulandstrange:

toomuchhorrorfiction:

Guy N. Smith’s infamous pulp-horror “classic” Killer Crabs series, Dell reprints from the 1980s.

This is so great.

Find that thing you’re passionate about, and do that for the rest of your life.

I can’t stop thinking about Garth Marenghi.

CRABPLACE.

“Bigger And Crabbier Than Ever” is a t-shirt I would pay good money for.

I might genuinely have to read these.

Mar 8
thegildedcentury:

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September-October, 1939

What? I want to see more of this and find out if it’s actually as offensive as it seems to be…

thegildedcentury:

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September-October, 1939

What? I want to see more of this and find out if it’s actually as offensive as it seems to be…

Sep 7
thegildedcentury:

Fantastic Adventures, April, 1949
Yes.

MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER

thegildedcentury:

Fantastic Adventures, April, 1949

Yes.

MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER

Why I Can't Read Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft, a much-beloved nerd god of pulpy, purple prosey horror and bleak isolation. I read a book of his once, and I loved it. But I can’t bring myself to read his work anymore. I wrote a piece about it.

It doesn’t matter what great problems, what human frailties, what terrifying truths I try to get at; in the end all I want, every time I sit down to write, is to create something that will fit this image.

It doesn’t matter what great problems, what human frailties, what terrifying truths I try to get at; in the end all I want, every time I sit down to write, is to create something that will fit this image.

Shawn Carter of Mars. This should not be anywhere near as funny as it is.

thegildedcentury:

Weird Tales, April, 1939

I want to read this so bad.

thegildedcentury:

Weird Tales, April, 1939

I want to read this so bad.

Mar 9
Flash! AHHHHHaaaahhhhhhh, Savior of the Universe!
(via Golden Age Comic Book Stories, and look at some of the other covers ‘cause they’re all great)

Flash! AHHHHHaaaahhhhhhh, Savior of the Universe!

(via Golden Age Comic Book Stories, and look at some of the other covers ‘cause they’re all great)

Feb 9
thegildedcentury:

Fantastic Adventures, January, 1943
This message brought to you by PCP.  

I… I don’t even. You know what? Sure. OK.

thegildedcentury:

Fantastic Adventures, January, 1943

This message brought to you by PCP. 

I… I don’t even. You know what? Sure. OK.

Feb 8
thegildedcentury:

1947

thegildedcentury:

1947

Feb 7
pulpragcovers:

Pyramid No. 27 - Sinful Cities of the Western World by Hendrik De Leeuw, 1951.
Cover art by Fred Meyer.

pulpragcovers:

Pyramid No. 27 - Sinful Cities of the Western World by Hendrik De Leeuw, 1951.

Cover art by Fred Meyer.