Tellers of Weird Tales

"The past is never dead.

Like I said last time, I don't know when what I have called the Gothic revival began, but in the 1960s there were Hammer films from England and horror films and gialli from Italy.

In the early twentieth century, during the Machine Age, the house became "a machine for living."

A long time ago I watched the movie The Fountainhead (1949), starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

Early in the morning of Thursday, August 27, 2026, the number of visits to this blog went over 5,000,000.

Weird fiction can be seen as a type of regional fiction.

I have next to me a collection of essays on Flannery O'Connor from a series called Modern Critical Views, edited by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House in 1986.

An Indiana Gothic?

There is supposed to have been a Southern Gothic, but are there or have there been other regional Gothics?

In the spring of 1935, Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), a Southern author, spoke and wrote of what she called "Southern Gothic."

If you remember high school English class, you might remember the concept of conflict in fiction, and you might remember that there are four basic types of conflict: Man against man Man against nature Man against society Man against himself It used to be…

In "Fifty-Two Miles to Terror" by Alex Gaby (The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 14, 1956, reprinted ten years later in 52 Miles to Terror and Other Stories of the Road), a man named Biff, driving on a lonely road in the American West, is tormented by the uns…

"The Last Bonneville" by F.

In "The Last Bonneville" by F.

The second car and driving story in the Cosmic Horror Issue of Weird Tales (2023) is "The Last Bonneville" by F.

"Movie Night at Phil's" by Don Webb (2012) is a story about watching TV.

I read a long time ago an essay about American literature and how many stories and novels begin with a character arriving on a train.

Car Names & Brandnames There are lots of songs about cars, driving, and being on the road.

More Songs of Science Fiction The video for "Cars" by Gary Numan (1979) is science-fictional.

Rocket The song "Rocket" by the Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1994.

Cars "Cars" by Gary Numan was released in 1979, but it seems like the first song of the 1980s.

Going Mobile "Going Mobile" by The Who is a song about driving and the freedom of the road.

Rocket 88 I don't have a very good title for this new series, but when you're going to throw in everything but the kitchen sink, you've got to settle on something.

Introduction I write on July 3rd.

Two hundred fifty years ago today, fifty-six men then assembled in Philadelphia and representing the Thirteen Colonies unanimously approved the Declaration of Independence by which we separated ourselves from the Old World and its ways.