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"The gun is GOOD! The Penis is EVIL!" bellows a huge stone head floating over the Irish countryside. It's quite a strange start to any movie, but it's about to

Ray Bradbury was born today in 1920. He was the author of what I think was one of the most prescient books of the 20th Century. And it started as

If YOU want to recreate 80s nuclear armageddon why not take the Threads historical tour of Sheffield?First stop: the Nottingham House pub, Broomhill, where Jimmy Kemp (Reece Dinsdale) and Ruth

Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"And today all our ladies are fleeing... the dark! To flee or not to flee... Darkness At

In January 1919 a new magazine heralded the dawn of the Weimar era. Its aesthetic was a kind of demented Jugendstil, and its stories were dark gothic fantasies.This is the

It is claustrophobic: the sound of your own breathing mixes with the fear of asphyxiation.It is impersonal: only the eyes peering through the sockets betray any humanity.It is totemic: the

Today in pulp I'm looking back at some slightly neglected '80s hi-tech action heroes. These people aren't Knight Rider or Airwolf: they're the other guys!Let's start with Automan... Launched in

As it's a #heatwave let's take a moment to celebrate the ice lollies of Europe. They play such a vital role in our well-being...First: the lollies of Britain! The ices

Many readers have asked me over the years "how do I (with my great hair) go about fleeing a gothic house?"That's a very good question, because it's not as easy

One chemical weapon is still widely used across the world: tear gas.Banned in war it can be deployed in peacetime as a riot control agent. But where did it come

Today in pulp I look back at the world of Soviet women's fashion!It's not all berets, but it mostly is... #TuesdayThoughts Now you may think that fashion and the Soviet

Today in pulp I'm looking at a rather splendid Modernist and Surrealist comic strip from 1904: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend! #FridayFeeling Dream of the Rarebit Fiend was written and illustrated

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