KOLCHAK comics and text fiction update DECEMBER 2025 (PLUS a virtual season two and three)
KOLCHAK EXTRAS-ANTHOLOGY
Summer In Rome
Date of Publication: 1-11-2025
June 5, 1944.
The Shot Heard Round The World
Note: Carl loses his job in Washington DC. Carl a sports
reporter in Spring of 1959. Carl saves a dog, a mascot to a baseball team and
the dog is named Roscoe. Kathy appears. She believes Carl’s stories.
The Devil’s Chapel
1940: Carl sustained minor injuries as he was on one of the
last boats out of Dunkirk. He convalesced in the home of war widow Elizabeth
Parry that summer of 1940. They lose touch.
1993: Liz writes Carl.
1995: Liz moves back to Wales. Llanuwchllyn is a town near
Bala Lake.
Late 1996: Liz and Carl talk about him spending the summer
there.
July 1997: Carl leaves behind his 1966 Mustang at Miami
International and flew to England.
Carl meets Liz’s 19 year old grand son Andrew who has come
to stay with her because he had a falling out with his parents over him being
gay. Carl does not have a nephew or a niece.
NOTES: Jonestone, Charles Manson, David Koresh and the
Branch Davidians, the Waco siege of 1993, Aumshinrikyo and the Sarin gas attack
in 1995, and the 1997 Heaven’s Gate Cult, and Jim Jones are all mentioned. Huw
Rees was found in the burned out church in 1930. His cult started in 1904. He
died in an asylum in 1936.
Huw is back from the dead and after Andrew to start a new
congregation.
Carl was a serviceable pitcher in baseball in college and
throws a hag stone into Huw’s mouth.
There are rumors of a monster living in Bala Lake, aka Lake
Tegid. Carl uses a demijohn, a glass jar and puts the hag stone which sucked
Huw into it, and seals it with wax. He drops that into the lake with lead
weight in the jar.
Liz dies (she had had a heart attack earlier). Carl drinks
bourbon. Liz left Andrew her house and he found a job. Carl returned to Florida
once Andrew found a job. Andrew relays to Carl that he found himself a nice
boyfriend. Carl is not sure Andrew ever made up with his parents but Andrew
relayed that he wanted to become a journalist, which Carl thinks is flattering
or supposed it is.
Question: Could Andrew be Carl’s grandson?
THE KOLCHAK PAPERS
Date of publication: 2007
Notes: the original novels by Jeff Rice.
What? On one page Jeff says he met Carl in 1979. The murders
happened in 1970 and started April 27th, 1970. The end of the second
book states the second book ends around April 19th, 1972.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STRANGLER
Date of publication: 2010
KOLCHAK: THE RIPPER
Date of publication: 2024
KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER: DOUBLE FEATURE
THE NIGHT KILLERS (the third movie)
Kolchak in Hawaii.
(note: 1904: Enrico Poluzzi founded INS, gave it up shortly
after the end of WW1; Abe Marmelstein owns it now.)
More notes: Kolchak discusses this, "I believe I caught
the attention of something. God or the devil or alien creatures or some kind of
incomprehensible cosmic mind. Something that doesn't tolerate disinterested
observers, something that demands that he who studies it must participate in
it. Things started happening to me, strange things."
The man he is talking to believes that it is a phenomenon
that includes patterns undecipherable and improbably coincidences and odds. He
warns Carl to stop because the more prying into the paranormal of any kind, the
more Carl will open himself up to influences he can never hope to understand or
cope with.
THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED (the first chapter is WELCOME TO
CHICAGO)
Notes: text stories. The third movie/novel after THE NIGHT
STRANGLER happens in Hawaii. It starts in November on the 2nd. Carl
seems to have worked in Chicago before Vegas and knows Miss Emily already. Carl
meets Ron for the first time in CHICAGO story.
THE TV SERIES (timeline to follow?) 20 episodes
THE GET OF BELIAL (published 2002)
Date of publication: 2002
Time frame: after TV show’s last episode
Kolchak is investigating a miners’ strike in Winship County,
West Virginia when he learns of a series of horrific deaths; he learns that the
bodies of the victims appear to have been mutilated either by angry miners
using picks, or by savage, wild animals. Kolchak investigates and discovers a
connection to the Blackshear family; Sarah Blackshear is a faith healer, but
there is a lethal price for her miraculous ability to cure…
EVE OF TERROR
Date of publication: 2005
Time frame: after TV show’s last episode and probably the
Get of Belial
As Doctor Myra Deckbar and her technician, Wayne Franks,
carry out an important experiment into sound waves, Myra suddenly finds herself
cast as the guinea pig, and is assaulted by deafening audio waves. When Franks
is subsequently found murdered Kolchak joins the police investigation team to
uncover the truth behind the events. Together with Myra’s gorgeous roommate,
Gwen, the reporter soon uncovers a sickening governmental cover-up that dates
back seventy years – which has somehow led to Myra’s transformation into a
brutal killing machine…
THE EXECUTIONERS-unmade script
The Executioners’ was written by Max Hodge, although it is
not known if this script was ever considered for production. It’s a great
story: three murders occur in one day, the victims found strangled, beheaded
and hanged. Investigating the story, Kolchak discovers that the deaths are
linked to ‘The Executioners’, a Seventeenth-Century Dutch painting depicting a
hangman, an axe-wielding executioner, and a poison-carrying monk. The artist
was the notorious Henry Boetje, who once murdered a dozen victims, incinerated
them and then mixed their ashes in with his paint; he also used their blood to
clean his brushes. When Kolchak notes that the figures in the painting have
moved from one night to the next, he realises that the subjects of the painting
are coming to life to carry out the grisly murders…
THE KOLCHAK PAPERS: GRAVE SECRETS
Date of publication: 1994
Time Frame: September 30, 1992 to October 31st,
1992
Notes: Carl is working for the Hollywood Dispatch
Unknown: Kolchak story, long form in a horror magazine.
Possibly dealing with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein or a werewolf story
and with Dracula, the Invisible Man, and the Wolf Man.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: FEVER PITCH
Date of publication: 2002
A flu-ridden Kolchak investigates a series of gruesome
deaths, and discovers that each person that witnessed a death soon became the
killer’s next victim. Even more disturbing is that each witness reported seeing
each victim's body literally explode from within, unleashing a different,
horrifying monster. Unable to track down the killer, Kolchak encounters Doctor
Kinatu, who reveals the terrible truth behind the horrific murders - but to
stop the killer, Kolchak must face his fears…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
Date of publication: 2003
Note: Starts on Feb 3rd.
nvestigating a spate of missing teenagers, Kolchak learns of
a possible connection with wealthy businessman Marcus Polk. But his attempts to
gain information are continually met with resistance, and he is roughed up by
Polk's heavies. Bruised and battered, Kolchak meets Theresa Termini, a hospital
receptionist; using Theresa's computer skills they gain access to Polk's
personal files, which reveal his involvement in a project concerning genetic
manipulation. Kolchak realises that the abducted youths are being sacrificed to
a special clone that Polk has financed. Breaking into the disused prison where
the clone is being kept Kolchak discovers that the creature is a man-made
Minotaur - and then finds himself in the role of Theseus…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 1
Date of publication: 2003
Story: Shady Places (another part of the inside front cover
says there is a separate sequence called “Mr. Nightmare story”?).
Where now?: New Orleans?
Carl faces a swamp monster. A woman is attacked in an alley.
Did they really need to have her cat killed, too? The thing is a shadow that
eats meat (this sounds a lot like one of the better FREAKLINKS episodes). The
thing struck in August 3rd, 1906. Kolchak gets infected and turning
into a plant man. He has another victim in his closet in his motel room. Sleep
and the AC and being out of sunlight stops the infection which is caused by a
company using chemicals. I have to admit I don’t fully get this story and
haven’t spent enough time to reread it or decipher it.
Kolchak arrives in New Orleans to investigate claims that
Crescent City Development has violated EPA codes, disposing of hazardous
chemicals used in its new line of fertilisers and pesticides and conducting
illegal experiments. While following up reports of a human plant terrorizing
the local citizens Kolchak is attacked by the creature, but manages to trap it
in the closet of his hotel room; however, he soon becomes disturbed when his
body actually begins growing leaves. Meanwhile, reports come in of a second
monster roaming the streets: a living shadow that can strip the flesh from its
victims’ bones in an instant…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: DEVIL IN THE DETAILS
Date of publication: 2003
Kolchak investigates the disappearance of businessman
Chester Fredersen, who has apparently embezzled his company's profits and then
run off, leaving his brother and business partner, Barry, in hospital dying of
Lou Gherig's Disease. Before he vanished, Chester called his wife from work at
the Byte-by-Byte corporation, screaming that he was literally being eaten away.
After Diana Fredersen also dissolves into nothing while on a date with Kolchak,
Barry's condition goes into an impossible state of remission. Kolchak beleives
that the key lies in a bottle of impossibly-small robots...
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: PAIN MOST HUMAN
Date of publication: 2004
Tired of covering stories that involve monsters and demons,
Kolchak asks Tony for a simpler, more normal assignment. His editor sends him
to Camerton, N.Y., to find out just what it was that fell out of the sky a few
weeks ago; although initial reports stated that the object was a crashed
U.F.O., the story was subsequently retracted by the nearby army base, which
then issued an announcement that one of their experimental jet planes had
crashed. With the diverting assistance of local waitress Kathy Phlinsen, Carl’s
investigations lead him to check out the nearby Lupoff Foundation, a factory
complex that manufactures hi-tech computer chips. That night, Kolchak decides
to sneak into the army base, only to discover that visitors from outer space
are not the real monsters in this case…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: PAIN WITHOUT TEARS
Date of publication: 2004
Depressed at how his life has become nothing but a
succession of frightening encounters with vampires, werewolves and energy
beasts, and faced with the prospect of yet more grisly death and horror,
reporter Carl Kolchak heads for a bar and proceeds to drink himself into
oblivion. During his liquid breakfast, Carl encounters a young Chinese girl,
Yitt Feng, who encourages him to unburden his troubles on her; after pouring
out his life story to the attentive and sympathetic girl, Carl is surprised to
find himself feeling much better. But this happiness is short-lived upon the
arrival of two groups of men – a trio of sinister corporate ‘Men in Black’ and
two Asian thugs - who try to take the Chinese girl away by force. While
Kolchak’s attempts to protect Yitt only result in him being beaten up, Yitt
somehow manages to evade her pursuers, and she disappears into the night.
Realising that he has fallen for the girl, Kolchak turns to Tony Vincenzo for
help in finding Yitt; using the newspaper’s resources he eventually tracks the
girl to a nunnery. Here, Carl learns from the mother superior that Yitt is an
empath, capable of healing people by absorbing their pain into herself.
Reunited with Yitt, Carl encourages her to come away with him; but as they
leave the convent but they are once again faced with the trio of Men in Black –
and Carl is promptly shot dead…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 2
Date of publication: 2004
Story: KYRIE
Carl’s new story about senility being associated with being
able to communicate on a higher level with house pets as a result of collective
community consciousness that all living things have because of ancient man’s
contact with space aliens. Tony mentions stories about plant monsters and man
eating shadows. Up in Seattle, the mayor’s son was missing and a cult was
suspected. In two days, Carl gets the mayor’s son home. Miss Emily appears. Ron
appears. Carl has a cat named Twinkles that he has Emily watch in the office.
Lorelei is the name of the girl that gave Carl a lead to the kidnapped teen(s).
She seems to know about past stories (a bull man for one). Publisher Morgan
Slate appears. The mayor’s political rival used a satanic cult and kidnapped
the son to make it look like the Mayor’s family did it. Or was involved in a
cult.
Good Morning, America is mentioned by Emily.
Carl has a dream about being back in New Orleans, attacked
by the man eating shadow (last issue). Charlevoix is seen as a ghost, telling
Carl he’s seen the light. Carl contemplates returning to Chicago. When the
Mayor’s son Toby calls Carl to give him info on a devil, Carl realizes it is
Lorelei and sets a trap for her with three Catholic priests. One is named
Father Lewis, who tells Carl that the warning letter came from a guardian
angel. Morgan offered Carl the job that Tony has as the Hollywood Dispatch.
Carl turns it down. Carl wants Tony to let him do the final piece on the
spaceships. Carl once worked Tony’s job for Tony. He claims he can’t stand
Tony. He turned down the job because, “It would be hell for me.”
The editorial, WELCOME TO MY WORLD has Dave Ulanski discuss
a story where “Carl retires and starts a pachyderm farm in Wyoming where he
discovers a secret underground race of cucumber people bent on world domination
via sending mind control waves on sunbeams to humans while they slept. In
April, Carl runs into Creatures of Habbit. Ron Frenz is the special guest
artist next issue.
Oddity: Carl seems to be kissing Lorelei at the bottom of
one page, or almost about to and…has his hand on her throat!?
Quote: “Was that possible? Were the police thanking me and
shaking my hand?”
Tony refuses to print Kolchak’s story of pensioners, cats
and aliens, preferring instead to send the reporter to Seattle to investigate a
cult of devil-worshippers that have supposedly kidnapped the son of the city’s
mayor. Arriving in Seattle, Kolchak finds it hard to get anywhere with the
story – until he meets a beautiful red-head named Lorelei, who gives him the
lead he is after. Kolchak cracks the case, discovering that the mayor’s rival
in the upcoming elections was responsible for the kidnapping in order to
involve the mayor in a scandal over cultists. As Kolchak’s popularity with his
readership soars, he finds that all his wild stories are finally believed.
Kolchak’s life finally takes a turn for the better, and after seeing Lorelei
again, he finds himself falling in love with her. But when Kolchak is then
offered Tony’s job as editor on the paper he begins to suspect that his sudden
change of fortune is just too good to be true…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 3
Publication Date: 2004
Story 1: THE CREATURES OF HABBIT
Lorraine Whitten and Kolchak encounter gremlins in a house
she is trying to sell as a real estate agent. The house blows up. A gremlin is
behind Lorraine in her car as she is angered at Kolchak.
Story 2: MORE CREATURES OF HABBIT
Lorraine has abandoned Carl so he has to walk home. Carl
flees from a family of bigfoot monsters and falls. He awakens in a home of Gene
Runningwater who turns out to be a monster. While tied to a stake, Carl brings
up that visiting a guy from work, he opened a closet and found a frilly little
nighty. Kolchak asks him if he is a wendigo, a rugaru or a good witch or a bad
witch.
Note: Carl is still working for the Los Angeles Dispatch.
'The Creatures of Habit'
Arriving at an old rustic house in the small town of Habbit
in Oregon, real estate agent Lorraine Whitten is shocked to discover the
savagely mutilated body of her colleague, Tina. After calling the police,
Lorraine also contacts reporter Carl Kolchak, hoping to make some money from
the story. However, when she and Kolchak later return to the scene of the
murder, they learn that instead of rats, the real culprits are a hoard of
vicious little gremlins…
'More Creatures of Habbit'
Angry at Kolchak’s destruction of the gremlin-infested old
house, Lorraine Whitten storms off in her car, leaving the hapless reporter
stranded in the dark woods. Attempting to find his way back to town, Kolchak
suddenly comes face to face with the legendary beast, Bigfoot; the reporter
flees in terror, but only succeeds in tripping and knocking himself out. When
he comes to, Kolchak finds himself in the home of an Indian named Gene
Runningwater; initially, the Native American seems the perfect host, but his
intimate knowledge of the Bigfoot legends soon raises Carl’s suspicions…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 4
Publication date: 2004
Story: Scratch
Time Frame: Less than a month before Halloween?
Notes: Publisher is Morgan Slate and he joined for a card
game.
Story: Carl vs Mary Worth, Bloody Mary. The backstory seems
to have happened about 15 years ago. (no source seems sure of the Mary story
but the only one that seems even close to modern times that the Kolchak stuff
takes place in is 1969, which would be 15 years before 1984. So, this could be
1984.
An after-work staff-meeting at the newspaper offices quickly
turns into a game of poker, and it isn’t long before the topic of Carl
Kolchak’s latest story comes up. As Tony Vincenzo, Ron Updike, Mr Slate and his
yes-man Eric Statton listen on, Carl recounts the mysterious details
surrounding a young girl’s death during a slumber party, supposedly at the
hands of a vicious spirit named Bloody Mary. But instead of facing the usual
ridicule, Carl is instead talked into spending a night in the old haunted house,
accompanied by his fellow card-players. Some time later, the five of them
arrive at the abandoned house, but a terrified Updike panics, driving off in
the car and stranding the others, just as a wild storm breaks out overhead.
Inside the old house, Carl glimpses a ghostly form in a mirror, and when
Statton is attacked by an unseen assailant, his badly-scratched face bleeding
furiously, Kolchak realises that Bloody Mary is real, and is using the mirrors’
reflections to stalk him and his colleagues around the house. Karl and Tony
collect the mirrors and store them out of the way in the basement, but
rainwater leaking inside the house provides the spirit with a means of escape.
As the storm continues to rage, Kolchak must find a way to trap the deadly
ghost – otherwise he will not last out the night…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: PAIN WITHOUT TEARS
Date of publication: 2004
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 5
Publication date: 2005
Proxmity part one
Eric James Stalton was born in the 1960s (the tombstone has
the date’s last two numbers blocked by a leaf). Carl is writing for a Halloween
Feature so it is around that time of year. It is confirmed it is October. Carl
and Tony are working in Los Angeles. Santiago Hernandez has worked a year on
the burial tomb exhibit.
Monique Marmelstein “ was just an intern back in the days of
the INS. She’s a reporter now” and “another of us unlucky souls who’ve found
our way to Los Angeles under the loving wing of Tony Vincenzo.” Not sure why the need to make things in LA
instead of Chicago but there you go. They work for the Hollywood Dispatch.
“Over the next couple of days…”
Carl has a nightmare with a mummy in it. Carl sees a Dr.
Regis. In his narrative, Carl mentions: zombies, werewolves, aliens, plant
monsters, mirror witches, minotaurs, man eating shadows, nanobots, killer
viruses, gremlins, and a “love affair with the devil.” Later, Carl has
hallucinations about Peremalfait. Carl has been suffering for about two weeks
and thinks it could be the curse of Imjah Ra. He seems to have an apartment
over a bar. Carl appears shirtless in his apartment in one frame.
A week ago, according to Geraldine Weiss, the exhibit was
shipped back. A day or so later, Carl hits on her or compliments her to get her
to call Santiago.
A couple of days later. Emily and Ron appear. Morgan Slate
is mentioned. The story ends on a cliffhanger with Carl and Santiago at a diner
seeing images of Egyptian monsters: a jackal, a mummy and a vaguely goblin like
being with Egyptian garb. Santiago has one arm.
After the funeral of Eric Stalton, victim of the creature
named Bloody Mary, Kolchak meets two ghost hunters named Otto and Mo
Brerhahrer; when questioned, Karl refuses to comment on his ghostly encounters,
and leaves the duo behind at the cemetery. Returning to work at the newspaper,
Kolchak’s next assignment is to cover a story at the Los Angeles History
Museum; it seems that the new Egyptian exhibit was abruptly cancelled just
prior to opening after the relics on show were ordered by international law to
be returned to their homeland. Kolchak meets Professor Santiao Hernadez, who is
extremely aggravated to see his life’s work being taken away from him; when he
encourages Kolchak to take a small souvenir of the Egyptian treasures, the
reporter chooses a statuette of a cat. However, this innocuous trinket soon
demonstrates strange, unearthly powers, as Kochak becomes increasingly
fatigued, and begins seeing creatures from Egyptian mythology. Then, as his
sanity stretches to breaking point, Karl starts to wonder if his hallucinations
are in fact real…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 6
Publication date: 2005
Story: Proximity part two
After removing two ‘keepsakes’ from the artefacts recovered
from the tomb of Imjah Ra, an ancient Egyptian vampire, Kolchak and Professor
Hernadez have been plagued with terrifying visions of horrific creatures. The
only way they can regain their sanity is to return the relics to Imjah Ra’s
tomb; however, when they enter the ancient pyramid they come face to face with
Imjah Ra’s mummy - a vicious monster that has somehow returned to life…
KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER issue 7
Publication date: 2005
Story: The Saggath
Notes: the police friend of Carl’s returns and the homeless
man named Virgil returns.
Kolchak is contacted by police officer Charlevoix, who asks
for the reporter’s ‘specialised’ help in investigating a series of mysterious
deaths in New Orleans. Kolchak realises that the murders have links to the
plant monster and the shadow man – the Saggath – that he encountered during his
previous visit to the city. He soon uncovers a link to the Crescent City
Development company – and discovers that their experiments are far more
sinister than Kolchak could ever have imagined…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER volume one
Date of publication: 2004
Stories:
The Night Stalker
Get of Belial
Fever Pitch
Mask of the Moment
KOLCHAK TALES: BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER
Publication date: 2005
The Framing Sequence AND Stoned:
The framing seems to be that Carl knows Tony a long time and
is still working with him. Stoned is a story he recounts to Tony’s therapist.
He claims he was in NY “a few years ago”. The story starts Oct 17th and 18th.
Carl’s car is 23 years old. He has an old friend named Hodges as the Daily
News. Clash of the Titans is one of Carl’s guilty pleasures. Carl vs a Medusa
(or a Gorgon). When Tony Vincenzo seeks professional help for his stress, it
emerges that Kolchak is the centre of his anxiety. The psychiatrist is curious
and asks Kolchak, to pay him a visit; Kolchak agrees as a favour to his boss,
and soon finds himself recounting three tales of his investigations into the
world of the supernatural… While covering a nationwide talent search to find
America’s new top fashion model, Kolchak meets Anya, the sister of Tanya
Walker, one of the contestants. However, when Tanya’s body is found in a
petrified state, he suspects that someone is deliberately sabotaging the
contest. Could Tanya’s rival, the beautiful but enigmatic Athene Anetakis, be
the deadly Medusa of ancient Greek legends..?
The Spike:
A framing story in a framing story? The LA stuff seems to be
with Tony and Carl and on Oct 12th. Tony talks about 25 years ago. Carl goes
looking for info 20 years ago and finds a NY story. Tony was a reporter but
shortly left NY and became an editor. Carl tries to find out about the monster
the Whisperer. Kolchak has always suspected that Tony Vincenzo knows more about
the supernatural than he lets on. When Kolchak investigates the case of a woman
torn to pieces in Brentwood, he finds ties to a case that Tony covered and
buried twenty-five years ago – the case of a mysterious murderer known only as
the ‘Whisperer’…
The Stuff I Leave Out
Kolchak doesn’t always get things right in the course of his
investigations. When he goes looking for Roger Wills, a young boy who has
recently disappeared, his mistaken belief that the boy has been kidnapped by a
sex offender obsessed with satanic rituals nearly costs him his life…
KOLCHAK:THE NIGHT
STALKER CHRONICLES
Date of publication: 2005
What Every Coin Has
Don’t Even Blink
The Why of the Matter
The Last Temptation of Kolchak
The Ungrateful Dead
The Source
Kolchak and the Cult Murders
The Night Talker
Shadows from the Screen
Barrens
Frost-Bitten
Man Or Monster
Interview With a Vampire (text of meeting Barnabas)
It Came from Monkey Skull Creek
What Monsters Do
Accidental Invasion
Genius Loci
The Abominable Ice Man
The Pretty Dead Girl
Wet Dog of Galveston
Kali’s Final Cut
The Shadow That Shapes the Light
The Mirror Cracked
The Shrug of Atlas
Searching for CISA
Open House
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CASEBOOK
Date of publication: 2006
Power Hungry
Stealing Fire
Bones of the Past
The Strange Events at Vishnu Springs
The Day of Her Return
They Came from the Dark Ride
Fish Story
Digger
Blues, Sex, and Bad Hot Mojo
Broken Willow
Alternate Endings
Brief Encounter
Pirate’s Blood
Until Tomorrow
Call Me Sam
Cancellation
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: BARE BONES
Stories:
The Get of Belial
Lambs To The Slaughter
Eve of Terror
Joe’s Notes
One Foot In the Grave
Tales of the Night Stalker 1
Tales of the Night Stalker 2
Tales of the Night Stalker 3
Tales of the Night Stalker 4
Tales of the Night Stalker 5
Tales of the Night Stalker 6
Tales of the Night Stalker 7
Welcome To My World, Warts and All
KOLCHAK TALES: GHOST STORIES
Date of publication: 2006
Stories:
Fifteen Minutes
Kolchak is asked to join paranormal investigators Otto and
Mo Bererhahuer, who want him to help write a book about their work. Their first
case together is to look into a report of a haunting at the newly-acquired
residence of Mindy and Bradley Forest; Kolchak soon meets the ghost of a
suicide victim who wants his fifteen minutes of fame…
Blood!
As Windsor Chemical Corp is accused of dumping radioactive
waste, the truck drivers carrying the material are each murdered by a
terrifying ghostly attacker. When a mysterious beautiful woman asks Kolchak to
help Jason and Cameron Windsor, the two siblings who own the company, to
uncover the truth behind the accusations, Carl soon learns that blood is indeed
thicker than water…
A Clue To The Truth
Otto and Mo ask Kolchak to have dinner with Doctor Robert M.
Carter, an eccentric ghost expert. Carl drives out to Carter’s cliff side
house, where he is surprised to learn that the doctor is a fan of his work.
Together they enjoy a pleasant meal, and spend the evening conversing on all
things paranormal, until Carl finally realises the lateness of the hour, and
regretfully heads home. The next morning, Kolchak meets Otto for breakfast, and
describes his evening spent with Carter. What Otto tells him next leaves Carl
shaken – and forces him to see himself in a whole new light…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: TERROR WITHIN
The inside says volume two: TERROR WITHIN
Date of publication: 2006
Stories:
Devil In the Details
Pain Most Human
Pain Without Tears
LAI WAN: THE DREAM WALKER
Date of publication: 2006
Stories: (only Carl Kolchak stories noted here).
THE MIND OF THE DEAD
Notes: Starts out on November 15th. Gordie
appears. Bill Clinton is mentioned.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: A BLACK AND EVIL TRUTH
Date of publication: 2007
Note: Carl ruminates on many of his encounters and also
notes a mirror that sucks people into it. This seems to come after Grave
Secrets. Carl is working for the Hollywood Dispatch. This is the first text
novel after Grave Secrets. Starts on April 25th.
Carl Kolchak was just your average reporter until the day he
put two and two together and came up with evil. A reluctant paranormal
investigator, Kolchak couldn't stop tripping over the unusual even if he wanted
to. And for all of his efforts of seeking the truth...
Unemployment and ridicule have followed him like the plague.
Someone, or something, is tearing people up into little pieces in small town
West Virginia. It's up to Kolchak to wade through the bloody-science jigsaw
puzzle, while watching his back against an unseen foe! It's a cat and mouse
game, as he battles a maelstrom of terror that everyone around him gets sucked
into.
KOLCHAK TALES: THE FRANKENSTEIN AGENDA issue 1
Publication date: 2007
When Kolchak heads for Central Oregon to investigate reports
of strange lights in the sky and sightings of the legendary Sasquatch, he finds
an unusually large military presence in the area. Ignoring their order to turn
back, Karl sneaks into the woods and finds the disembowelled corpse of a bear;
he then runs into Colonel Braxton, an unfriendly soldier who places a watch on
the snooping reporter. Karl soon arrives in the town of Log Run, where he hands
over his assignment to student Roy Two Clouds in order to give himself the time
to continue his investigations. That night, Kolchak joins the local sheriff at
the house of Sophie Newman, a recently abducted widow. Following the trail into
the dark wood, Karl comes face to face with a walking nightmare…
KOLCHAK TALES: THE FRANKENSTEIN AGENDA issue 2
Publication date: 2007
Held hostage by a bizarre, hulking monster, Kolchak learns
from his fellow prisoner, widow Sophie Newman, that the creature is in fact her
son, John. It seems that that John had recently volunteered for a secret
project being conducted at the nearby army base, a project that somehow led to
his transformation into the mute creature now standing before them. Vowing to
uncover the truth behind John’s metamorphosis, Kolchak’s search leads him to
Doctor Miles Stewart, a terrified scientist now living in fear from the
repercussions of creating a new form of life for the colonisation of alien
planets…
KOLCHAK TALES: THE FRANKENSTEIN AGENDA issue 3
Publication date: 2007
Attacked by four hideously mutated dogs, Kolchak is saved by
the misshaped creature that was once John Newman. When Carl and John’s mother,
Sophie, report the rogue operation taking place at the nearby military base to
Sheriff Jeff Carter, the officer asks the reporter to sneak into Fort Dean to
gather further information. However, on entering the premises Kolchak is
immediately captured by Colonel Braxton and taken to a laboratory where
creatures from the depths of hell are being created for use on the battlefield…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: THE LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR
Date of publication: 2007
Note: illustrated text story.
MOONSTONE’S HOLIDAY SUPER SPECTACULAR
Date of publication: 2007
Story: A Christmas Story
Time Frame: must be after or during 1983 as the office staff
–Monique tells Carl he totally looks like that actor Darren McGavin. They gave
him a lamp that is from the movie or a replica of it. Ralphie Parker even makes
an appearance as a witness. Kolchak vs an evil elf and is helped by Santa
Claus.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER volume three: SOUND OF FEAR
Date of publication: 2008
KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD Issue 1
Publication Date: 2008
Kolchak is sent to Georges Corners, Nebraska, where
television star Wendi Fairchild is opening her hometown’s annual Corn Festival.
Making friends with the attractive Sheriff Kristin Collins, Carl learns that as
well as dealing with the media circus converging on their town, the local
police are busy investigating a waste material leak at the nearby Biomajor
International Agricultural Research Center, and the gruesome murders of a young
farm girl and her boyfriend. Somehow the dead are walking in Georges Corners –
and they are very, very hungry…
KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD Issue 2
Publication Date: 2008
Kolchak and Sheriff Collins are trapped inside the Biomajor
International Agricultural Research Center, under siege from a swarm of
ravenous zombies. After joining forces with the only three members of the staff
who haven’t been transformed into cannibalistic killers, Kolchak isn’t
surprised to learn that their situation has gone from bad to worse: the test
animals have also been infected, and now Carl and his fellow survivors are
faced with a pack of giant, man-eating mutant pigs…
KOLCHAK TALES: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD Issue 3
Publication Date: 2008
SHERLOCK HOLMES/KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER issue 1
Date of publication: 2009
SHERLOCK HOLMES/KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER issue 2
Date of publication: 2009
SHERLOCK HOLMES/KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER issue 3
Date of publication: 2009
PARTNERS IN CRIME
Date of publication: 2009
Some editions have a “brand new Kolchak” story. It’s very
short and called KOLCHAK: PARTNERS IN CRIME. I’m so sorry, I’m not impressed by
all these crossovers and other heroes. I want Carl and his stories, not
crossovers with other franchises and heroes that I am not particularly a fan
of!
KOLCHAK TALES ANNUAL
Date of publication: 2009
Stories:
Interview With A Vampire: featuring Barnabas Collins from
DARK SHADOWS.
Kolchak receives an intriguing letter from someone called
Barnabas Collins, inviting him to the remote town of Collinsport to discuss a
mutual “friend” – Janos Skorzeny, the vampire Kolchak staked several years ago
in Las Vegas. Despite his reservations Kolchak sets off to investigate – but
could Collins be a vampire as well..?
One Foot In The Grave
The Hollywood Dispatch’s publisher, Morgan Slate, sends Tony
and Kolchak to Nevada to investigate a report of a missing couple, who vanished
in the desert under mysterious circumstances. Kolchak soon finds himself lost
in the heat-scorched wilderness – and under threat from a race of giants
KOLCHAK: THE POE CRIME is advertised in 2010.
THE PHANTOM DOUBLE SHOT: KGB NOIR plus: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER issue 2?
Kolchak: Dichtomy
Date of publication: 2010
Honey West notes for timeline: Honey West in a series of
novels spanned the years: 1957 to 1961; 1964; she retires?; the TV show was
1965 to 1966; the two novel comeback 1971; her adventures appear to be
contemporary to when they were published or TV aired.
Carl is a copyboy here AND a virgin. Jeff Rice was a copy
boy in 1963. Carl meets Honey here, at a diner. They both save a young girl
Consuela from a cult of Thoth run by Arden Absolute, who is using Ibis Club as
a cover to kidnap virgin girls. It seems he’s done this before in other clubs
he owned.
When Carl’s hair goes on fire, Honey slaps the straw hat on
his head and it’s implied this is the first time he wears it. Carl mentions her
legs. He is working for Chicago Independent. When Honey avoids telling him her
name, Carl jokes it could be Erica, Madeline, or Hortense.
“What do you know, a lady dick, isn’t that an oxymoron?”
Story: It is Nov. 12th 1:15 pm in LA. Story ends on Nov.
13th. The experiments on Dimitri and the work of his Russian father happened in
the 1980s when Dimtri was a baby. Dimtri looks to be about 25 to maybe 30? So
this might be 2005? Possibly 2010?
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: THE LOVECRAFT DAMNATION
Date of publication: 2010
Note: Illustrated text story.
Called to the office of Marvin Richards, host of the popular
cable news show ‘Challenge of the Unknown’, Kolchak finds the man in a state of
terror. Carl came to the aid of the newsman once before, when Richards and his
team had been tricked by the immoral Doctor Randel Penes into purchasing a copy
of the ancient book known as the Necronomicon; Penes used this evil tome to
summon up an otherworldly demon named Nyogtha, causing the deaths of a score of
people before he and the book were destroyed. Richards informs Kolchak that the
studio is once again being menaced by a supernatural horror: it seems that
Penes has returned, and so has the evil Necronomicon…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER FILES issue 1
Date of Publication: 2010
Story: Untitled? Monster?: The Gargoth is a real demon
monster used by movie maker director Jack Tyburn. Jack shoots the girl who
leads Carl to him. Her name was Pilar Reyes. Carl burns down the studio which
seems to stop the monster and the man. Carl thinks it’s been a long time that
he’s seen a normal human man, a human being kill another.
Fictional Time Frame: Carl has left the Hollywood Dispatch.
Where now?: “Right here, right now” seems to be in Los
Angeles.
Notes: at the end of comic book story, Kolchak thinks about
this: “I liked Los Angeles, sure, but then, I’d liked Chicago, too. And Vegas.
And I’d loved New York.” He thinks it is
time to move on and is looking at Miami, Florida. (At first, I thought this
might be a nod to the character, Darren McGavin played in the X FILES as that
character, Arthur Dales, had lived in Florida for a time).
Carl meets Tony at Papa Dino’s. Tony says Ron is on
assignment up in Sacramento and Emily is visiting her sister in Boca Raton for
a few weeks.
Invited to lunch by Vincenzo, Kolchak is handed a package
that arrived for him at the ‘Hollywood Despatch’, sent by Stu Phipps of
Bakersfield. The parcel contains news clippings and reports detailing a number
of missing persons: various actors and crew associated with the B-horror movie
series ‘Blood of the Gargoth’, including Stu’s younger sister, an actress named
Allison Phipps, who also recently disappeared under mysterious circumstances...
Deciding to investigate, Kolchak soon finds himself locking horns with Jack
Tyburn, the independent producer-director responsible for the gore-splattered
movie series – and quickly learns that the footage Tyburn has of the horrific
beast called the Gargoth may not be down to mere special effects at all…
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER FILES issue 2
Date of publication: 2011
Story: SWAMP THINGS part 1
Fictional Month and Day: August 17th.
Notes: Carl is seeking employment in Miami, Florida. He
mentions the Fourth Estate that he worked for.
The Fourth Estate is a jargon term for the portions of the
United States Department of Defense that are not the military Services or
Intelligence Community agencies including: the Office of Economic Adjustment.
Fourth Estate entities are all organizational entities in DoD that are not in
the military departments, IC agencies, or combatant commands. Archibald Leach
was editor in chief of The World Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, which makes the
Hollywood Dispatch look like the NY Times. Carl mentions Korea.
Erin Cho was working on the beat Carl will now get. She was
working for four years on that beat. She calls Carl by the name of Kojak. Carl
corrects her, “Kojak’s the bald one.”
Carl’s narration mentions a practice he would recommend: a child looking
for monsters under his bed every night.
Bernie Fain, who was there when Carl drove a stake through
Janos Skorzeny, appears. Carl tells Bernie he tracked down Gail and Carl
tracked her down. She is in St. Louis, married and a couple of girls. He thinks
she’s happy. Bernie read a book Carl wrote. Bernie apparently describes Fox
Mulder, who he met before he left the Bureau. He calls him a real spooky kid
who had some of Carl’s clippings on his wall. Sandra Anne Baen is an editorial
intern, age 24. Carl takes his coffee black.
Possible monster: attacks have been made and Archie mentions
the Florida skunk ape.
Erin loves Carl’s hat.
Quotes: “Who is this guy, Archie? He looks like a refugee
from a summer stock production of the FRONT PAGE.”
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER FILES issue 3
Date of publication: 2011
Story: SWAMP THINGS part 2
Fictional Month and Day: August 18th or 19th?
Marshall Potter was on the hunt for two weeks. One of the
criminal victims had a wife whose grandfather tells Carl the legend that the
female Earth that the next one, either Skunk Ape or Seminole Native to spill
blood would be removed from this world. He believes the Skunk Ape cannot kill
people. Marshall asks about a giant mutant deer. Carl tells Marshall Potter a
story about a casino that was possessed, not just the roulette table. He called
an old high school buddy who was a priest now. The craps table was stubborn.
Potter is killed by an amphibian man thing but skunk apes come to kill it.
Apparently, it stole their nest. No bodies were found.
Quote: “There are monsters even among monsters. And some
monsters…really aren’t so bad.”
The inside back cover advertises a pocket thriller called
THE LOST CITY, which was changed to THE LOST WORLD.
Kolchak finally falls on his feet when he is offered the
post of lead columnist at ‘The World Bulletin’, “America’s favourite weekly
newspaper”, by its editor-in-chief, Archibald Leach. Readily accepting the job,
Kolchak quickly finds his first story, investigating reports of a brutal swamp
monster roaming the Florida everglades…
PHASES OF THE MOON
Date of publication: 2011
This is where things get confusing. This is a hard cover and
inside PHASES OF THE MOON book two has that title above KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT
STALKER FILES which seems to also have issue 2 on the cover. The inside front
cover has KOLCHAK! And also PHASES OF THE MOON part four and Kolchak in “YOU
OUTTA BE IN PICTURES.”
There is also a KOLCHAK text story called END GAME.
The inside front cover also has the title PHASES OF THE
MOON-FULL MOON. Huh?
Other heroes include Domino Lady, The Spider, Honey West,
Sheena, Buckaroo Bonzai, and Captain Action, not in that order.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER AND THE LOST WORLD
Date of publication: none given but probably 2011 or 2012.
Note: originally advertised as KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
AND THE LOST CITY or just KOLCHAK: THE LOST CITY. Story starts out in March.
This is a small digest sized text novel.
KOLCHAK: NECRONOMICON
Date of publication: 2012
Stories:
The Lovecraftian Gambit: What Every Coin Has (2012)
The Lovecraftian Horror (2007)
The Lovecraftian Damnation (2010)
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER AND DR. MOREAU
Date of publication: 2013
After missing his flight connection back to L.A., Kolchak is
forced to return by road; en route he learns of a gruesome attack in Winnetka,
Illinois, at the home of Doctor Eloise Lochley, and decides to investigate. At
the crime scene Carl meets an old colleague, Chief Detective Irene Lamont, who
allows him to join her team as they search the house full of animal tracks and
human bones picked clean. When Doctor Lochley arrives to find her home in
turmoil, Kolchak questions her and learns that her son, Eli, recently
disappeared; Eli was a member of ‘Animals are People Too’, an activist group
that has been causing trouble in the area. As Kolchak continues to work the
case, the military receive a tip off and mount a raid on the headquarters of
APT; however, as they approach the group’s farmhouse, they are cut down one by
one by a pack of vicious animal-human hybrids. Lamont, Kolchak and a squad of
police pay Doctor Lochley a visit and find her sharing her home with another
pack of hybrid creatures, descendants of a human-animal experiment by a
real-life Doctor Moreau from over a century ago. Lochley reveals that the
hybrids were dying out until she introduced prehistoric cells into their DNA –
cells taken from ice samples that Kolchak remembers only too well, from a
previous case involving killer ape-men. The doctor also tells Kolchak and
Lamont that she injected Eli with the DNA too, to prevent her son dying from
Alzheimer’s... Meanwhile, the other pack goes on the offensive: using weapons
taken from the soldiers, they begin attacking random humans, and then devouring
their prey…
HONEY WEST AND KOLCHAK issue 1
High Heels and Hedonism
Date of publication: 2013
Two top-tier investigators in one titanic team up! High
heels and Hedonism! Young cub reporter Carl Kolchak falls into an ongoing
investigation with Honey West, who is undercover at a gentlemen's club!
Disappearing women are the main course, and as the violence escalates and the
case gets out of control, both our heroes must fight to stay alive!
This may take place before Carl becomes a full reporter and
is very young.
SHERLOCK HOLMES and KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER: CRY FOR THUNDER
Inside front cover title: CRY OF THUNDER
Date of publication: 2014
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER DOUBLE FEATURE
Date of publication: 2015
Time frame: it seems to be 1996?
Stories:
Penny Dreadful
The Time Stalker
Notes: Gail Karen appears; Robert Palmer returns; Janos
appears, too. His last victim who survived, appears. Does Gail Fisher appear
too?
DAN SHAMBLE, ZOMBIE PI/KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
Unnaturally Normal
Publication date: 2016
“This year the holiday (Halloween) falls on a Friday.”
Carl works for the Hollywood Dispatch. Henry Hornkamp is a
street source who visits Carl every Halloween. Carl’s been to the Irish Pub
Harrington’s and the last time he was there it was less than a pleasant
experience. An actor got shot there a few years back. Henry is the first one
who didn’t want money from Carl but a story! Carl is not liked by officer
Lasutta but an officer Camille sets him on a witness of a werewolf attack. Carl
meets Dan. Carl accidentally activates the Skull of Sythnoxx. When returns from
the Big Uneasy world, the unnatural quarter, a slightly different Earth, he
finds he lost two whole days. When Kolchak returns, a vampire named Vlad comes
with him but is now human. Vincenzo asks Carl where he was all weekend so Nov 1
and 2 have probably passed and it is either Nov 2 or 3.
KOLCHAK: DAWN OF THE DEMONS was an advertised forthcoming
comic book which I’m not sure ever made it to publication. The ad was in FOXY
LADY issue one, which was published in 2016.
KOLCHAK: THE PHOENIX RISING
Date of publication: 2016
Also advertises DAWN OF THE DEMONS.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: PASSAGES OF THE MACABRE
Stories:
Marrowport
Kumiho
Cat Fight
The Lost Boy
Updyke: the Night Stalker: Wicked Ways (Updyke is spelled
Updike in the title)
Obesession
The Shadow of the Phoenix
Always Hungry
Green Eyed Monster
Demon In My View
Who’s To Judge
Whatever Kills In Vegas
Meet the Authors
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: THE FORGOTTEN LORE OF EDGAR
ALLAN POE
Date of publication:
2016
Time Frame: starts in very late September (the 28th)
Note: KOLCHAK: THE POE CRIME was advertised in 2010.
Also: one of my favorite of MOONSTONE’s books.
BONUS FICTION SHORT STORY: AT ODD ANGELS’
SON OF KOLCHAK by Dathian Floyd (2018)
Amazon Kindle Novel
October?
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: THE LAST TEMPTATION
Date of publication: 2019
Notes: A creatures uses Gail’s form. Gail appears. Starts
October 13. Tony mentions a banshee and that Carl is due for another vampire.
KOLCHAK AND THE NIGHT STALKERS: THE FACELESS GOD
Date of publication: 2021
Note: Text novel and a crossover with many other “heroes.”
MOONSTONE DOUBLE SHOT JULY 21
Date of publication: 2021
The House of A Thousand Screams (with Green Hornet and Kato)
The For Jenny Matter (not with Kolchak)
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: STRANGLED BY DEATH
Date of publication: 2021
Notes: July 11 to July 18
MOONSTONE DOUBLE SHOT Jan 22
Date of publication: 2022
DOUBLOON DOUBLE CROSS
Note: crossover with Green Hornet and Kato; a hell ship
MOONSTONE KGB NOIR
KOLCHAK: KGB NOIR
Date of publication: not printed in the book
Note: Nov 12th; Leo Coleman eats lunch at
Charlie’s with Carl every Tuesday, strangers who get to know each other; Leo
dies in this dark and dismal story;
KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER: 50TH ANNIVERSARY
A Message From Ron Updyke
Hard to place the time but it could be 2024. Ron refers to
Carl’s disappearance and that he has come into possession of papers, tapes, out
of focus photographs. Carl had been writing a memoir that Ron has.
The Funny Place
Sept 1939; Carl corrects his high school editor Any and
tells him his name is Karel and not Carol. Carl writes for the Abraham Lincoln
High School Gazette. His family is Polish and live in Brooklyn.
The White Lady
June 11, 1940. France. A ghost lady monster saves Carl from
Nazis. Carl vows that if the US ever joins the war he will join up but his
weapon will be his typewriter.
The Enemy Within
March 9, 1954. Carl stops demon worshippers from killing
Edward R Murrow on his TV show. Carl is working for the Washington Chronicle.
One of the worshippers is named Donald. The demon is named Bael.
Wandering Soul
1966 is mentioned as the last time Carl was in Hanoi, that
time covering the Vietnam war. Carl recalls when he was working for the Tucson
Gazette and demolished a church full of werewolf nuns by using a bulldozer. Carl
tells a man, “Go stomp Tokyo,” in a Godzilla reference. Kamitra came to Hanoi
to get over Carl, she knew they would never work out. She and her parents are
ghosts that need to be freed. Carl believes in an afterlife.
Interview With The Night Stalker
Emeric Belasco makes Janos Skorzeny a vampire in 1934. Carl
interviews Janos (alt history?).
The Nest
September 12, 1978. Rat people in Chicago (semi friendly).
The Package
May 24 to June 21, 1974. Chicago.
The Voodoo Child
Summer of 1976. Harlem. Also: September possibly 1975? A cop
named Adams claims they kicked Carl out of Harlem for being a nuisance years
ago. This takes place after THE ZOMBIE. Vincenzo was in NY filling in for an
ailing editor.
The Primitives
March 27, 1973. Malibu, California. Carl goes to Erik
Sjoberg’s Museum of Cryptozoology which is housed in an airstream trailer. Carl
is still working for INS Chicago. Carl tracks an interdimensional Bigfoot cult.
The creature was sent to stop the occultists who came close to piercing the
veil between dimensions.
Satanic Child 88
July 13, 1988.
The Sin Feeder
March 3rd. March 9th. Former NASA
director Warren Brown dies. Carl finds a note, “Fan of your work. Stasy out of
this.”
The Last Byline
Carl’s older, looks gray haired. Feb 22: three months back
in Chicago. He’s left the sunshine state (Florida). Carl’s heart most desire to
see Gail Foster one more time. Leo Vlad Skorzeny bites Carl. He is Janos’
father. Carl suspected he was under some kind of curse because of how many
times his photographs and cameras got confiscated or destroyed. Carl seems to
talk to Miss Emily and lets her know he trusted her and always did and would
have liked to have read her detective novel. Carl tells Gordy and Ron how much
he appreciated them. Carl talked Tony out of letting Ron cover America’s Next
Supermodel auditions but Carl explains it was because Robespierre’s ghost
started decapitating the contestants. Gordy retired from the city morgue. Feb
24: Carl visits Vincenzo who says, “Why is it when my doorbell rings at this
ungodly hour, yours was the first name that sprang to mind, Kolchak?” Tony is retired and Carl hasn’t worked for
him for years. An army of vampires hidden in three locations were given to Carl
by Vlad. Carl tells Tony, “You are and always have been….one hell of a
newsman.” This is a play Star Trek 2’s
“You are and always have been my friend.”
Carl becomes a vampire and burns the vampire lair. Skorzeny gifted Carl a supernatural life
during which he used his occult influence to ensure that Carl crossed paths
with as many demons and night creatures as possible, “…not that I hadn’t run
into more than my share of such things since I was a kid.” Instead, Carl prides himself on saving others
and having respect for the truth and humanity to take the leap to believe. Carl
is 5;10 and 150 pounds, hazel eyes. Carl seems to burn up all the vampires,
including himself but…he had a white ring around him so maybe that ring
protected him?
Prose
The Oni
Quonset hut on Sato Island in the war’s Pacific Theater.
Carl requested assignment to the Stars and Stripes newspaper. He was a private
first class. It seems to be the very end of WW2 or possibly just before the
surrender or before the A bomb drops. A giant cannibal monster toad vs Carl and
Ken Matsumoto. The CO calls Carl Coal Sack. Carl and Ken were ordered to keep
quiet about the monster or they would not be breathing anymore. The Japanese
kid, a 19 year old soldier, who dies, first told Ken that Colonel Anderson knew
about the creature and had been feeding it. The army was building a cage. Sigh.
Another reason we beat Japan in WW2? Kind of tasteless.
Escape From Wisconsin
Feb 1950. Antigo, Wisconsin. Carl is a copyboy who asks for
a feature at the Suburbanite Economist. Carl vs a hodag. Carl goes back to
Chicago. Seems this thing was minding its own business in the woods when Carl
steps on it and then it chases him and he sets a fire to kill it. Sigh.
The Devil Level
Carl is in his third week in Vietnam as a war correspondent.
An angelic girl vs the devil? A fox creature?
On the Road With Carl
Tony Vincenzo’s granddaughter Lois. From Tony’s POV, an
adventure as Carl, Tony, and Louise drive toward NY after THE NIGHT STRANGLER. In
the end, she saves them from a hairless…bear? They let her out at a motel in
what is possibly Easton. “Carl Kolchak is a
hard headed outsider who’ll do anything for the truth. Who comes on all
tough and yet bleeds for mankind.”
The Black Volga
Dec 21, Peckham St. Buffalo, NY. Louise left Carl before
they even got out of Washington State. Carl leaves Tony in Chicago and goes to
NYc. On the way, he goes to Buffalo. Aunt Zofia was not his real aunt but a
kindly neighbor who took care of Carl while his mother worked. She survived
Bolsheviks, communists, and fascists. She came to Buffalo; the east side
–Polonia, the heart of the St Stanislaus Parish. It is the first day of winter.
Carl fakes that his name is Kojak. The devil corrupts nuns and priests to use
young children’s blood.
A Case of the Mondays
May 3, 1974.
Blood Witch
Sept 13, 1978.
Up From The Underground
Dec 21, Chicago. Medical examiner Dr. Metz mentions Gordy
Spangler retired.
Wolf’s Clothing
Oct 14, 1981. Tony mentions grebulons and chupacabras. The Grebulons are a race that first appeared
in the novel Mostly Harmless, when they were revealed to be monitoring the
television and radio broadcasts from planet Earth, however they did not know
why as the information of their mission was partly destroyed when a meteorite
crashed into their ship. Due to this loss of data, nobody will ever know
"for sure" where the Grebulons came from, or what it was that they
wanted. Names include Talbot, Landon, and Chaney. Ends Oct 16.
L.A. Lizard (note: Carl was in LA in 1979 looking for the
ghost of Sharon Tate—tasteless story beat)
1934: newspaper talks about Lizard People. Lizard people
pretending to be human are in control and Carl suspects right to Washington DC.
They may have “dealt with” two kids Jamie and Luis that helped Carl. They
threaten Carl if he tries to publish a story about them. NOTE: this doesn’t
ring true as Carl would probably have published it anyway. We do not find out
what happened to the two kids/teens which is VERY annoying.
KOLCHAK: NOSFERATU
Date of publication: 2023
Prelude: All Roads Lead Back to the Bite
Prologue: I’ve Got Your Back-Mickey Crawford appears
The Nosferatu Murders
The Brides of Nosferatu
Epilogue: An Important Stop
MOONSTONE TRIPLE THREAT MARCH 23
Date of publication: 2023
KOLCHAK/PHOENIX: THE MAGIC FLUTE
Note: starts October 24.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: HOTEL OF HORROR
Date of publication: 2023
Note: Oct 30 to Nov 1; Hollywood Dispatch
MOONSTONE TRIPLE THREAT May 23
Date of publication: 2023
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER-MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: DEAD RECKONING
Date of publication: 2023
Note: Starts Sept 5
MOONSTONE DOUBLE SHOT Feb 2024
Publication Date: 2024
Kolchak: TOUCH OF SILK
Timeline: April 1, 2023: Southern California. Story ends on
April 27, 2023.
KOLCHAK: THE MOTHMAN REQUIEUM
Date of publication: April/May 2024
Timeline: August 22 in Illinois. September 9 in Chicago.
October 9 in Point Pleasant.
Notes: Carl is with the Hollywood Dispatch. The interviewer
brings up the Spanish Moss Murders and the swamp monster, the Yeti at the
fairgrounds in Minnesota, and Las Vegas.
John Keel died in NYC years ago. In the real world, Keel
died July 3, 2009.
MOONSTONE TRIPLE THREAT MAY 2024
A ghostly apparition haunts Kolchak, somehow connected to a
murderous creature terrorizing Chicago. As he hunts for the truth behind both
phenomena, a window opens on a terrible tomorrow in which Earth has been
conquered by alien invaders…a conquest blamed on Kolchak!
THE TOMORROW GHOST:
Timeline dates:
July 3--4, 1976
July 3---4, 2076
KOLCHAK/SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SEQUEL
Shadows Past and Present
Date of publication: April/May 2024
Timeline: June 4, 2016; June 17, 2016; a Capt Reilly
appears; a police woman named Weber, African American appears prominently; a
Windcliff Asylum appears (this is the name of a Dark Shadows asylum);
KOLCHAK AND THE NIGHT STALKERS
Date of Publication: April/May 2024
A LITTLE STENCH OF THE GRAVE
Timeline: Jan 30
Notes: Hollywood Dispatch (Los Angeles)
THE TENTH LIFE…-crossover with THE Cat
Timeline: 1974 is mentioned but that is possibly NOT the
present. Hollywood Dispatch so California.
LAKE OF THE DAMNED aka DAY STALKING (one title on the
contents page and one on the first page of the story)-crossover with Derek
Flint
Note: Hollywood Dispatch. A Goth girl named Trinity handles
social media for the Hollywood Dispatch.
WEREWOLF HUNTING IN THE CITY OF MASKS-crossover with Black
Shirt
Notes: Kolchak in NYC; Kolchak’s remembers a djinn. Modern
tech such as blue tooth and ear pods as well as modern terms LGBTQ are
mentioned. Nazi werewolves. Kolchak’s thoughts go to the idea that everyone in
the world spent the last year isolating so 2020 or 2021?
Other adventures mentioned during the pandemic: Kolchak was
on the streets of Chicago where families of a Southside neighborhood claimed
cannibal zombies preyed on people at night.
Another adventure Kolchak thinks about is chasing the
Mothman in a city which he never found a decent answer to.
Another adventure he had to NOT investigate was the idea of
a man controlling a horde of alligators in the sewers—the risk of infection was
too great in the sewers.
Kolchak is a senior citizen and got his vaccine shot before
he left Chicago and only had a sore arm and some fatigue, not much different
from how he feels after a bender.
Kolchak leaves to investigate a racist bigfoot when a bunch
of Antifa activists claimed they were attacked in the woods in Oregon.
YOU CAN’T KEEP A DEAD WOMAN DOWN
Note: The feast of Damballah (the Chucky movies and TV
series) is mentioned. Zombies. Gordy the
Ghoul is mentioned. The woman in this story knows Carl and Gordy. Carl helped
her in the past and saved her life.
MOONSTONE DOUBLE SHOT April/May 2024
Showcasing characters from his recent Kolchak: The Night
Stalker novel, Hotel of Horror.
In Winchester ’22, Carl teams up with Scarlett Twilight, the
young protégé who helped him dispatch the evil entity that had terrorized the
Hotel Cecil. This time, Carl and Scarlett must solve the century-old mystery of
San Francisco’s Winchester House to free the descendants of the rifle mogul
from a fate worse than death. Timeline: September 2 to Sept 4.
Pit of Despair finds Scarlett in the weeks following the
events of Hotel of Horror dealing with the emotional aftermath of that ordeal.
When Scarlett’s dead sister calls to her from beyond the grave, she enlists the
ghost of psychic Lilly Ravenstar to help her face the demons of her past. Just
before Halloween 2020. Carl does not appear.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
HAUNTED & HUNTED
Date of publication: 2024
From the bestselling author of The X-Files: The Official
Archives comes five brand new Carl Kolchak tales full of dogged reporting and
inescapable terror...Guess Who? What
would you do if you were stuck inside a haunted airport, with your dyspeptic
boss, during a blackout? Kolchak uncovers a cold case where aviation history, a
terrifying game, and a vengeful ghost collide with baggage-claim delays,
publishing deadlines, and Fettuccine Alfredo.
Guess Who?
Vincenzo and Carl went to an east coast convention hosted by
the NY Daily News. They work for the Hollywood Dispatch. Carl dreams about Det
Weber.
Abduction Island
Catalina is a beautiful island off the coast of California,
home to hillside vistas, scuba-loving holidaymakers, and bizarre UFO sightings.
What was supposed to be an upbeat travel assignment rapidly descends into
madness, where Kolchak discovers there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
Lake of the Damned
A smashed-up cassette tape found on a Lake Tahoe beach pulls
Kolchak into a story where the fate of a missing young reporter is on the line.
What are the authorities ignoring? And how does local chatter about a lake
monster fit into this murky, extremely fishy tale?
Notes: Gordy’s nephew is Ricky Spangler. He asks Carl to get
his nephew an internship. Ricky goes to UCLA. This internship is with the Holly
Dispatch. The Donner Party happened near where Carl is at the lake. The Tessie
monster is mentioned and the diver Lucas Rousseau who rose from the lake dive
he took and said, “The world is utterly unprepared for what is down
there.”
Det Gregory Lyons might be a nod to an actor who played in
some episodes of Ironside. Ricky vanishes and his body “to this day” is never
found. Morbid.
Kindness Can Kill You
When driving alone, on an all-day-long road trip, it's not
just planning your rest stops that requires careful consideration. Seeing a
hitchhiker provokes feelings of concern but also caution. In the middle of
nowhere, at the dead of night, one decision by Kolchak leads to the breakdown
from hell...
October 30th: Kolchak is on the outskirts of
Vegas; mentions he never saw Gail Foster again; is here to catch up with old
friends from the Las Vegas Daily News that Vincenzo used to head up.
A disturbing scary story as Kolchak drives back (he works
for the Hollywood Dispatch) and encounters a thing, a UFO and what appeared to
be a lot of dead cows but only one seemed to die. The thing wants…blood. It
starts with stories of hitchhiker stories of scary hitchhikers?
Promises, Promises
During an unexpected winter assignment in Paris, France, a
jet-lagged Kolchak comes face to face with an impossible crime scene. Did a
gigantic stone gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral come to life and commit
murder outside his hotel? Is it a fiendish hoax, or something more diabolical?
Timeline: Jan 16 to Jan 19. Paris.
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER: THE RIPPER
I thought this was to be a straight novelization. It’s not.
It is really a fully fledged novel sequel to the episode THE RIPPER as well as
a sequel to THE NIGHT STRANGLER and somewhat to THE NIGHT STALKER TV movie.
There are connections between Janos, The Ripper, and Malcolm
Richards. The ghost of Jane Plum.
Timeline: Several months ago, Janos made a brief return to
life in Las Vegas. Gail Karen believes Carl’s stories and “someone who knows
the truth about some of the things I’ve seen and done and actually believes
it.” She was there first hand several months ago when Janos Skorzeny made a
brief and puzzling return to Las Vegas and the whole story can be found in one
of Carl’s earlier memoirs called the Time Stalker. That was when he first met
Gail Karen.
Other ripperologists: Robert Golding. Peter Strange in a
yellow bowtie who wrote a book that the Ripper was Dr. Grippen. Simeon Dietz.
Captain Matteo of THE VAMPIRE appears. A Sherlock Holmes
manuscript is stolen after one of the new murders. Vincenzo wonders if Carl is
allowed back in Chicago after what happened with Captain Siska. Carl has only
been implicated in three or four fires in his life and the charges were all
dropped.
Carl’s first encounter in Chicago was with a mummy named
Nefer-weben. His “high year of strangenss” in Chicago started with that mummy
and ended with a nameless prehistoric lizard. Among his other encounters he
mentions a ghost of a pyromaniac.
Gordy’s son, Brad Spangler, works in the morgue in Chicago.
Gordy retired two years ago. Jonas Mitzen is now a captain and he was one of
the men who was a uniformed patrolman when the first Ripper was caught at a
construction site and later escaped. Carl also re-meets Bernard Weldon, now
Mhammed Shabazz or Mo these days. He had written some unflattering columns
about Weldon aka Sweetstick while looking for Francois Edmunds who worked for
Weldon as a numbers runner. Carl visits Irene Egenweiler, aka Cowles, Emily’s
sister who helped him catch her neighbor the Ripper years ago. A year after the
fire, they built a new house but it has gone through three owners. Irene
describes the ghost of Jane Plum. Captain Warren reappears. He was forced out,
probably retired and he took the Ripper’s suit and put it in a sealed bag but
someone broke into his house and stole it. The Ripper killed in Milwaukee and
Chicago years ago. There are at least three pay phones still in Chicago.
Carl met Jane Plum after he came to Chicago from Hawaii.
Carl’s old friend the Monk sets Carl up to get a pair of
military style tasers.
The building the old INS offices were in was built in 1894
and still stood more than a century after that. So it is somewhat years after
1994 that this story takes place. Since the internet finishes off the old INS
paper, it is probably more like 2004 but perhaps no later? INS was on the third
floor and the building has rounded bays at the four corners. Kolchak left less
than a year after his Ripper encounter (I deny that! I’d like to think Carl
never left Chicago but for stories). Tony left a bit later. The INS limped on
for a few more years after that and the internet finished it off. Kolchak
wonders if like the Ripper home, his office building was cursed: it has been
visited by one or two malevolent entities in the past.
We learn some of Janos’ past fighting in the Civil War and
the Bonaparte wars, as a mercenary, he fought on both sides sometimes. We learn
of the history of the Ripper Jimmy and Malcolm Richards, who meets Sherlock
Holmes.
Here is the way someone researched the show’s fictional
history but not sure I agree but I haven’t had time to check out the episodes
themselves.
BRUISES ON THE FLESH OF GOD
Publication Date: late 2024
Magazine title: WEIRD TALES 370: THE MONSTER ISSUE
Date in fiction given: September 3, 1983
Carl works for the Daily World News. Is sent to Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Carl recounts how he drove north from Albuquerque through Santa Fe,
near where he once tracked something that might or might not have been a
dinosaur. He drives a rented Chevy. Sangre de Cristo mountain mass is
mentioned. Carl drives past towns named Los Luceros, Embudo, and Dixon. It has
been a few years since Carl has seen FBI Special Agent Mort Rankin, a protégé
of Bernie Fain. A scientist that was trapped in an alternate reality returns
and declares creatures from the void between realities, from the space between
realities are in our reality. There is a tear in time/space. Carl is 61. Mort
warns Carl off after they escape a gov’t funded base where multi monsters
attack. Mort thinks there will be a gov’t cover up. He tells Carl to wait six
months to call him. Is this a prequel or sequel to THE MIST? Apes with scales,
lamprey monster, armadillo monster, winged monsters, blobs, baby winged
monsters.
A Timeline Chronology of Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1) The Night Stalker Las Vegas Sunday May 16, 1971 (May
16-28)
2) The Night Strangler Seattle Saturday April 1, 1972 (April
1-19)
3) The Vampire Los Angeles May 2, 1974 (three years after
Vegas)
4) The Ripper Chicago May 21-June 2, 1974
5) The Spanish Moss Murders Chicago July 3, 1974
6) The Devil’s Platform Chicago July 22, 1974
7) The Zombie Chicago August 14, 1974
8)
They have been, they
Are, they will be! Chicago September 2, 1974
9) Fire-fall Chicago September 3, 1974
10) Primal Scream- Chicago November 8,1974
11) Bad Medicine- Chicago November 12, 1974
12) The Werewolf Pacific Cruise December 11-25, 1974
13) Horror in the Heights Chicago March 3, 1975
14) Mr. R.I.N.G. Chicago Sunday April 2, 1975 (72 or 78)
15) Chopper Chicago April 5-6, 1975 (Feb 5*)
16) The Sentry Chicago April 20, 1975
17) The Trevi Collection Chicago Tuesday May 2, 1975 (72)
18) Demon in Lace Chicago May 10, 1975
19) The Energy Eater Chicago Summer months 1975
20) The Knightly Murders Chicago No date given 1975?
21) Legacy of Terror Chicago Monday September 22, 1975
KOLCHAK ERAS-update
Date of publication: August 2025
Devour The Dead
It is January 1977. It is in Chicago between the 8th
and the 13th of January 1977. Emily lives in an apartment named
Shady Oaks on South Wabash. She will be staying with Mr. Cartwright because a
woman died who was one of her neighbors and the snow meant they could not
collect her body yet. Kolchak vs an equi, a hungry ghost.
KOLCHAK MEETS THE CLASSIC MONSTERS volume 1
Date of publication: December 2025
KOLCHAK MEETS THE WEREWOLF AND COUNT CROWLEY
September 22, 1983
Lots of references here: Kolchak mentions “Everyone thinks
I’m CRACKED” which references the parody CRACKED in which Kolchak appeared in
an issue or so. Crowley names herself as Laverne Defazio and her axe as Shirley
(LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY). Kolchak also calls her a “regular Lenny Bruce.”
An African American cop mentions, “Kolchak, aren’t you the
one who said there was a mummy on the loose at the field museum?” The other cop thinks this is very funny for
some reason.
A security officer mentions Steppenwolf.
Carl walks into Philip’s Tavern. He remeets the lady and
follows her as she heads toward The Fireside Bowl. On the way, on a train, he
asks her, “What the hell’s a good monster?”
Carl references CREATURE FEATURE and she references SON OF
SVENGOOLIE.
She was a journalist who lost her career by a bad man who
got away with being bad to her at a news show in Cleveland. Carl wants to run
her story but she does not seem to want him to.
She stops the werewolf Terry (who seems ablet to talk when
he is in wolf form?) using bludgeoning and chains. She tells Carl that the bad
monsters have emissaries everywhere and any photographer that starts screaming
from the rooftops about monsters, ends up dead. She will find a way to reverse
Terry’s condition. He does not want to hurt anyone and protects his father who
had dementia. She also insists or jokes that Carl will use his contacts to help
Terry find support for his father. He says, “Yeah yeah.” She tells him he will because Carl is “one of
the good monsters.”
NOTE: a bit of a misleading thing here: I was expecting THE
CLASSIC wolf man Larry Talbot of THE WOLF MAN or even the character Henry Hull
played in WEREWOLF OF LONDON.
KOLCHAK MEETS FRANKENSTEIN
Chicago 1974. September 4, 1974.
Carl goes to see coroner Ernie Ingles about bodies having
been stolen. One body had no head. Carl finds two men reviving a body to life
from death. The men are going to shoot Carl dead but the Frankenstein monster
arrives and kills the two men. He also kills the revived monster. The monster
takes Carl’s devices. Carl feels the need to protect the legend’s secret.
KOLCHAK MEETS DRACULA
NY: Sept 9, 1978.
Carl is in NYC. Carl thinks about Studio 54 when a call
comes about a murder there. He also thinks Warhol and Bette Midler. Carl also
references Saturday Night Fever. “A vampire has come to take a bite out of the
Big Apple,” he tells Tony.
Carl visits medical examiner Jessica James, an African
American woman. She tells him this is the 6th body with bite marks.
They brought in ten tonight. A man claiming to be Count Dracula arrives with
two of his “brides”. Other bodies rise. Jessica seems to be killed or knocked
down or slashed? Carl has the necklace from the most recent victim and seems to
throw it and this stops the vampires? Huh? It was the essence of what was “his”
life, of Vlad’s life. Dracula or this man seems to talk about Vlad as if Vlad
is another person OR he is just naming himself? The sun comes up, the vampires
all die. Is Jessica dead, too? Firemen have to put out the fire.
Carl is not sure that was Dracula for real or not. He also
contemplates that Dracula has seen a number of resurrections and might return
to stake a claim on NY.
Homicide detective Brandon Samms appears.
KOLCHAK MEETS KONGA
Chicago, July 23rd, 1975. Carl goes to a
cryptozoologist when a man has been found stepped on inside a giant footprint.
Carl sees Konga. Later, Konga grabs Tony out of his office and claims the Sears
Tower and falls. Tony has his head hit a bit and doesn’t remember. A mostly
comical …story.
A hillbilly
family conjure up demons to spoil their competitors’ crops.
A monster
attacks porno movie houses and it is only energy which slowly takes on a form.
A librarian
finds a book which can make fantasy characters come to life to protect her job.
A witch
doctor becomes a lawyer and a killer.
A fish man
terrorizes a beach resort.
Kolchak in
Switzerland find a snowman that drains people of their body heat.
A Chinese
Samurai returns to avenge his master.
An angry
little troll begins collapsing bridges.
An ancient
Spanish warrior Aquirre made a pact with the devil to rule.
Kolchak
battles a three headed dog in order to keep the gates of hell closed.
A spider
woman attracts Kolchak to her lair.
A force
causes blackouts in an effort to raise violent energy from humans which it
feeds on.
A long time
ago Vincenzo covered a story about a cobra cult but some young punks vandalized
it. Now the cobra blames Vincenzo and starts killing the punks in the form of a
woman.
In Egypt,
Kolchak battles a living sphinx.
A hard rock
band is actually a group of devil worshippers.
A house
comes alive to terrorize its owners.
A tree that
a witch was hung on causes a family horror.
Mothmen from
space seem to invade Maine but Kolchak finds out they are helping us against
bat beings.
Kolchak
suspects a pack of hungry rats to be intelligent and part of a government cover
up.
A freak
experiment creates growing giant slugs.
A murdered,
drowned little girl torments fishermen.
Hawaii:
Kolchak contends with a shark being.
Hawaii: a
fire creatures causes a volcano to erupt.
Carl
contends with a haunted swimming pool which was once a lake where a killer
buried his victims.
Carl
protects super intelligent children from both the governments and criminals out
to exploit them.
Kolchak
finds a Nazi woman working on experiments to turn men into animals and animals
into men.
A kindly
family can live forever.
Kolchak
meets the Hulk.
Kolchak vs a
phantom photographer.
Kolchak
hunts a Medevil Dragon in Philadelphia.
Kolchak vs a
horse that entices people to ride on it …until they die.
Count Yorga
opens up a studio where he serves as a physical therapist/masseur/trainer.
Blacula aka
Mamuwalde returns and sets himself up as a modern day Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton
while also acting like Bill Cosby behind the scenes, only with vampirism.
SHE returns
but is reincarnated. The hero (Kolchak?) believes it is a woman who has begun
acting like SHE but also NOT like SHE. It turns out the girl he suspects of
being SHE is really the reincarnation of SHE’s male lover and the real
reincarnated SHE is in the body of a young man, the son of a friend that once
saved the hero’s (Kolchak) life.
Dr. Phibes
with his dead wife and his dead female aide find themselves hiding out in
modern day Chicago.
After Carl
defeated the foursome above, Cthulhu raises them to get their revenge on Carl.
They open up a center for abused women and/or alcoholics/drug addicts. JUST SAY
NO! The foursome have teamed up to get revenge on Kolchak!
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