House of Mystery #201 (April, 1972). Cover illustration by Michael Kaluta. *** Ninth in an occasional series.

CHESTER GOULD (1900-85) missed his calling as a professional designer of deathtraps. In the middle of one 1943 Dick Tracy sequence Gould wrote and...

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In this video, our friend Shelley Jackson reads aloud from HiLo Hero Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman… while running on a treadmill at a...

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“The above illustration speaks volumes for itself. Destructiveness is the center of all the characteristics named here.” *** According to Louis Allen Vaught, the...