ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

This post is part of the  Tales of Peril  Book Club,  indexed here . The second short "scene" of the Maze of Peril is a few parag...

The Giant Crab by Ray Harryhausen from Mysterious Island (1961) Ray Harryhausen's special effects for the 1961 movie adaptation of Jule...

From J.M. Barrie's original Peter Pan novel (1911, courtesy Project Gutenberg): "Marooners' Rock stood alone in the fo...

Poster for the 1959 film "The Giant Gila Monster" directed by Ray Kellogg Above is a poster for a 1950's monster movie, The G...

Detail of Sample Dungeon map, annotated Here's another possible  Holmes Basic Easter Egg  that I can't believe that I never noticed ...

Map of Marblehead, MA, inspiration for Lovecraft's Kingsport Previously, in " How Zenopus Met His Doom ", I discussed similari...

Tulzscha the Green Flame. Source . Earlier this year , in The Shadow over Portown , I speculated a connection between the wizard Zenopus and...

Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head , 30 More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin            I previously mentioned the talking mask in Ro...

    Detail from King Conan #4 (1980), Marvel, art by John Buscema Today we head back to the Blue Book, where the illustrated "Sam...