In the first part of this article, a few paragraphs from the Foreword of Philip José Farmer’s novel A Feast Unknown were presented, describing how the narrator, Lord Grandrith, was certain that his biological father was Jack the Ripper. That father would also go on to sire James “Doc” Caliban, Farmer’s pastiche of Doc Savage.Continue reading “Clark Savage, Sr. and the Victorian World of A Feast Unknown – Part 3”
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Clark Savage Sr., Idealist or Monster? – Victorian Roots to 20th Century Pulps, Part 2
Doc Savage’s father is mentioned in many of the pulp novels, but only in the context of his strange obsession to turn his son into a superman, trained and equipped to fight the evils of the world. Why would he do such a thing? The concept is intensely extreme…and yet what drove the elder SavageContinue reading “Clark Savage Sr., Idealist or Monster? – Victorian Roots to 20th Century Pulps, Part 2”
Straightlaced Savages – Victorian Era roots of 20th century pulps, Part 1
Decades before the 10-cent extravaganzas that were the pulp magazines, the Victorians had Penny Dreadfuls, filled with intense and lurid tales. And it was also a uniquely rich time for novelists and short story tellers like Poe, Stevenson and Stoker, who explored crime and the dark side of human imagination. In real life, Jack theContinue reading “Straightlaced Savages – Victorian Era roots of 20th century pulps, Part 1”
A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – Part 1 of 3
The Philip José Farmer novel A Feast Unknown debuted in 1969, published by Essex House. I’ve told the story before of how I encountered it four years later, in 1973 at age fifteen. At that time I was living in the beach town of Ocean City, Maryland. Strictly speaking, my family was actually homeless, squattingContinue reading “A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – Part 1 of 3”
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