Issue #11 – Fall 2025 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 62 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00 To order or get more information about this issue, please send an email with your inquiry to taloschronicle@gmail.com Special John Grersoun (the Talos pastiche of Lord Greystoke) issue!Continue reading “Doc Talos Magazine #11 now available”
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Clark Savage, Sr. and the Victorian World of A Feast Unknown – Part 3
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”
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”
Not your daddy’s Tarzan – Bellerophon Ape Man art
An explosive gallery of art from Iason Ragnar Bellerophon’s sketchbook for the novel Savages. All depict the novel’s Tarzan pastiche, Lord John Grersoun. Abstracts, kinetic figure drawings and portraits…you have never seen the Jungle Lord quite like this.
A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – climax and aftermath
Nobody moved. They could not accept what they had seen. And when their senses thawed, they began to realize what they faced. That line from A Feast Unknown could well summarize the experience of reading the novel. It was, in essence, one hammer-blow after another, leaving the reader stunned. This was not just because ofContinue reading “A Feast Unknown: 52 years later – climax and aftermath”
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”
A Feast Unknown On Stage
The article below, written by Jason Robert Bell (AKA Iason Ragnar Bellerophon) appeared in issue #2 of the Philip José Farmer fanzine Farmerphile, back in 2005. Ten years later R. Paul Sardanas acquired a copy of it, and it became the catalyst for the author and artist to join forces in the creation of DocContinue reading “A Feast Unknown On Stage”
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