MPorcius Fiction Log

Incomprehensible forces, circumstances beyond your human conceptions of good and evil, have laid out for me a bizarre and unusual destiny, have set me on a unique quest--to read at least one story from every published issue of that seminal speculative fic…

I hope you didn't get your fill of MPorcius fave Edmond Hamilton last time when we read his 1929 epic of a genocidal trip to the Earth's hollow center, "The Hidden World," because today we have three stories from Weird Tales by the Ohio-born child prodigy…

Like a giant replica of some strange anthill was this unutterably alien world hidden here at the heart of earth’s colossal shell, and as we sank downward through its levels in the great well, pausing in our vain search at level after level, gazing across…

In our last episode I enjoyed a story by Clare Winger Harris that debuted in Weird Tales, "A Runaway World," a tale full of science and scientists as well as horror and death that I thought conformed to the expectations of a traditional science fiction st…

After a brief break in the year 1980, let's return to the interwar period and read three stories from the July 1926 issue of Weird Tales, which has a cover that looks like one of my recurring pre-adolescent daydreams.

To her, his job began and ended with supplying rich, empty people with poor, desperate victims.

As foreshadowed, I pored over the tables of contents of the Robert E.

It looks like we are doing this again--welcome to September's blog post about stuff I recently bought, stuff I would have tweeted about if I hadn't lost my X account to diabolical hackers, crackers, and fraud and deceit backers.

Let's explore a Robert E.

Let's continue our readings of 1920s weird fiction with three stories by Frank Belknap Long, one of H.

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories printed in 1920s issues of Weird Tales.

Let's read some 1926 Weird Tales.

Let's read four stories from the January 1959 issue of Fantastic, sister magazine to Amazing, both of which at this time were edited by Cele Goldsmith.

You gotta have faith!

In our last adventure I expressed admiration for Laurence M.

Brace yourself for more late Fifties content!

The first issue of Dream World, the magazine edited by Paul W.

I spend a lot of time at antique stores, flea markets, junk stores, and the like because I am incredibly cheap and I hate everything new.

In our last episode I enjoyed a story from the 1914 P.

Advertising works!

We just read Harlan Ellison's story "Night Vigil," which debuted in a fanzine but was reprinted (with a new title) not long after in one of the most famous of SF magazines, Amazing.

The Roaring Twenties!

Let's finish up my signed copy of the fifth (1979) Collier paperback printing of Harlan Ellison's 1971 collection Alone Against Tomorrow, about which I have already written at some length here, here and here.

Let's take a break from Weird Tales and read three stories from my autographed paperback copy of Harlan Ellison's 1971 collection Alone Against Tomorrow.

The October 1925 issue of Weird Tales includes a full page ad heralding the coming appearance in the unique magazine of three stories by the "great English novelist" H.

Today we read three 1925 stories by E.

There was a time when I chronicled my purchases at book stores, antique stores, flea markets, etc., on Twitter, but since the pirates of cyberspace seized my X account I have been unable to post on the everything app.

As any sanctioned psyker can tell you, time in the warp can move in unexpected ways, so you shouldn't be surprised that we are looking at the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales after we looked at the August 1925 ish in our last episode.

Let's take a look at the August 1925 issue of Weird Tales, one of the most important of the pulps, one of the greatest of the speculative fiction magazines, the place where so many people first encountered H.

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log, we are reading stories from 1925 issues of Farnsworth Wright's unique magazine, Weird Tales.

Having just fulfilled our vow to read at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales with a 1924 cover date, let's get cracking on 1925, with three 1925 stories from Frank Belknap Long, a fancy dresser with exciting hair.

In 1924 Weird Tales published seven issues.

In Volume 9 of Hippocampus Press' Letters of H.

Years ago, I pledged to read at least one story from each issue of the seminal speculative fiction magazine Weird Tales bearing a 1930s cover date.

Remember how awesome some of those Lovecraft collabs with Hazel Heald and Zealia Bishop were?

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories from 1920s issues of Weird Tales, the widely beloved pioneering speculative fiction magazine.

During a period in 1924 and 1925, many stories in Weird Tales bore a heading that tightly integrated title and illustration in a rectangle as here Back in 2020 we read four stories H.