By: Devin McKinney

The tubercular cousin in our family of vigorous visionaries.

By: Kio Stark

A shimmer of thievery, deceit, and undependable identities.

By: Suzanne Fischer

His constant concern was the other side of the dark mirror.

By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the weird tentacle and the occult detective.

By: Joshua Glenn

From Lewis Carroll to Alasdair Gray and Terry Pratchett…

By: Joshua Glenn

His Radium Age sf and fantasy influenced Lovecraft and Gygax.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: Joshua Glenn

A fanboys’ fanboy, he coined the term “Cthulhu Mythos.”

By: Mike Fleisch

Curvy, writhing skin-coated volumes of muscle.

By: Joshua Glenn

“And see the earth, a spurnèd pebble, fall —”

By: Sean Howe

Sean Howe on a panel from THOR (1966)

By: Patrick Cates

The Galileo of gaming who taught a lad of limited imagination how to imagine.

By: Joshua Glenn

Maurice Sendak — unsafe at any age.

By: Tom Nealon

With the profusion of anti-heroes on television in recent years, from Tony Soprano’s jolly murderer to House’s belittling a-hole pose and from Jack Bauer’s strident seriousness to Dexter’s huggable serial killer, it’s easy to forget […]

By: Jason Grote

If there were to be a patron saint for misfit smart kids who do poorly in school, it would have to be MADELEINE L’ENGLE (1918-2007). A gifted writer from the age of 5, she was […]