Sunday, October 12, 2025

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: MORE STRANGE SMITH



Two more strange Warren Smith volumes are now available to read and download at archive dot org: Into the Strange and Strange Women of the Occult.

Once again, this marks the digital debut of both titles. Revisit true strange wonders like Italian Superman Agostino Colli (he has two hearts!) and the fearsome Ape Woman of Patang. Previous reviews are here and here.

The incredible Agostino lifts a jeep!

Both titles are courtesy Popular Library, 1968-1969.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: The Great Lakes Triangle


A new zone of terror, from The Great Lakes Triangle by Jay Gourley. Says Gourley:

There exists within the United States and Canada - principally between longitudes 76° west and 92° west and between latitudes 41° north and 49ยบ north - a region in which several peculiar events have been recorded. The concentration of such events is far greater than any random statistical dispersion would place within these narrow boundaries. The region, on the whole, is sparsely populated, but there are areas of dense population within it. The principal geographic features of this region are five freshwater lakes.

Courtesy Fontana Books, 1977. 

Sunday, October 5, 2025

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: MORE STRANGE STEIGER




Three more strange Brad Steiger volumes are now available to read and download on archive dot org:


This marks the digital debut of all three titles! Reacquaint yourself with such luminaries as the hideous Monster of Glamis, history mysteries like Edgar Allan Poe's missing bones, and dangerous adventure like Dr. Jeanne-Marie-Therese Koffman's search for the Abominable Snowman! These strange tales and many, many more are packed into these early titles from Steiger. Previous reviews are herehere, and here.

A bonny lass who knows how to get ahead!

All three titles are courtesy Popular Library, 1966-1967.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

COSMIC DEBRIS: Astro-Word Puzzle


It's fun for all with our big 500th post! Theme: authors and their birth-signs. From Dell's Horoscope magazine, Volume 41 - Number 11, November 1975.