The Dog-Headed Ghoul
Edward Lucas White (May 11, 1866 – March 30, 1934) was a historical novelist who turned horror short story writer. He is best remembered for Read More
Category: artwork
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
The Illustrators of The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle was famous already. He was the creator of Sherlock Holmes and he could have rested on those laurels (and big bucks) forever. Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery and J. R. R. Tolkien
In September 1937 an English Don named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien published a children’s book called The Hobbit. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Skywald
Skywald Publications was created by former Marvel Comics employee, Sol Brodsky – the Sky of the name, and Israel Waldman – the wald of the Read More
Jungleman, a Real Champ
“Jungleman” went through two distinctive phases, first with Champion Comics he was written by Worth B. Carnahan under the name Don Traver and was drawn Read More
Link: When Elephants Rule the Earth
Manly Wade Wellman won himself a place in Fantasy history as the author of the Silver John stories that first appeared in Fantasy and Science Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More
Jungol, the Evolution of a Jungle Man
Jungo replaced Zaro as Holyoke’s Sparkling Stars‘ jungle hero with Issue #13. By #18 they would send him to live with dinosaurs in a secret Read More