It was all about the king of monsters at the Black Gate blog last month.

Ryan Harvey’s Godzilla review was our top article in May. His mammoth 5-part history of the Big Guy was also picked up by Boing-Boing, among other places, exposing the series to thousands of new readers; the final installment came in at #3 for the month. If you visited the site last month and read nothing but Godzilla articles, you weren’t the only one.

My analysis of John C. Wright’s conservative manifesto “Heinlein, Hugos, and Hogwash,” and the frequently hilarious response in the blogosphere, was our second most read article last month. Garrett Calcaterra’s well-researched “Can SF Save the World From Climate Change?” came in at #4.

Rounding out the Top Five was Fletcher Vredenburgh’s warm appreciation of Keith Taylor’s sword & sorcery classic, Bard.

The complete Top 50 Black Gate posts in May were:

1. Godzilla (2014) Is a True Godzilla Film and a Unique Blockbuster
2. A Ride Along with the Thought Police: John C. Wright, Foz Meadows, and Rachel Aaron
3. A History of Godzilla on Film, Part 5: The Travesty and the Millennium Era (1996–2004)
4. Can SF Save the World From Climate Change?
5. A Perfect Artifact from the Glory Days of 1970s Swords & Sorcery: Keith Taylor’s Bard
6. Category: Magazines
7. Windaria: The Eternal Conflict Between Beauty and Violence
8. Author Spotlight on James Sutter
9. Category: Blog Entry
10. The Fascination of Dragons

     

11. The Joy of Outlining
12. Four Modules
13. Category: Writing
14. The Serious Novel isn’t Dead, It Won
15. Announcing the Winner of the Laurence Manning Giveaway
16. The Hugo Ballot: Another View
17. “I rolled a critical hit against Yog-Sothoth!”: Revisiting AD&D Deities and Demigods (4th and Final Part)
18. The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: A Man Called Spade
19. A Knight Dies in Bed
20. A Hero Must Strive: My Favorite Fantasy Heroes

     

21. The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock (Doctor) Who?
22. Rogues Gallery
23. Goth Chick News: The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo
24. How Much Backstory Do We Really Need?
25. Little Blue Squares
26. Vintage Treasures: The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark by Leigh Brackett
27. Viking Art, Magic, and Wisdom at the British Museum
28. Going Home
29. Washington Attorney General Files Suit Against Ed Nash for Kickstarter Fraud
30. The Shout of a Young Man Who Finds the World a Complicated Place: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock

     

31. Mothra vs. King Ghidorah: Which Toho Monster Will Appear in the Next U.S. Godzilla Movie?
32. Against the Giants of Chaos: Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land
33. Los Caballeros Templares
34. Compiling The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure
35. Blogging Dan Barry’s Flash Gordon, Part Fifteen
36. The Thrill of Writing, the Agony of Revision
37. King Conan Gets a Movie Poster
38. Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1951: A Retro-Review
39. One of the Best Serials Ever Made: The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Chapter One: Curse of the Scorpion
40. Vintage Treasures: Science Fiction of the 30′s edited by Damon Knight

     

41. Art of the Genre: The Art of ‘Making Your Own Way’
42. Loaded!
43. So We Were In This Bar…
44. “An Element of Imagination”: Olga Slavnikova’s 2017
45. Jews With Swords: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
46. Future Treasures: Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
47. Category: Books
48. Goth Chick News: Lovecraft Fans, It’s Time for a Road Trip
49. True Places: Jan Morris’ Hav
50. Werewolves, Vampires, Zombies, Serial Killers, and the Horror of Mundane Lives: Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters

The Top 5o Black Gate blog posts in April are here, and you can see all 119 posts we made in the month of May here.