A sometimes overlooked author of fantasy, horror and the supernatural is Carl Jacobi ((10 July 1908 – 25 August 1997). He wrote many stories, mostly for the pulps and was a frequent contributor to WEIRD TALES. His best known collection of weird stories is "Revelations in Black", first published in 1947. This tale is from Hugo Gernsback's WONDER STORIES ("The Magazine of Prophetic Fiction"), November 1933.
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Friday, September 29, 2023
Saturday, September 24, 2022
BEHIND THE SCENES: METROPOLIS' SPECIAL EFFECTS
Among his other titles (AMAZING STORIES was probably his most famous), Hugo "The Father of Science Fiction" Gernsback published a slick magazine, SCIENCE AND INVENTION. The first issue (at that time known as THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER) appeared on newsstands in May 1913 and Gernsback published it until he went bankrupt in 1929. Gernsback also published POPULAR MECHANICS and MODERN ELECTRICS/POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION was a strange amalgam of scientific fact and fiction, and many stories and articles leaned towards, or were outright speculative in nature. The June, 1927 issue included this article on the making of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS (UFA, 1927). It shows how many of the visually arresting effects were made using drawings and stills from the movie.
Expanded illustrations:
BONUS! Here are two more interesting features from the same issue:
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