The Savage Land: A Pulp Heritage
The Savage Land from the Ka-Zar comics has an obvious Pulp heritage. Or is it all that obvious? Who was the first person to place Read More
Category: Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Fire of Asshurbanipal: Adventure Meets Horror
A Late Manuscript “The Fire of Asshurbanipal” (Weird Tales, December 1936) by Robert E. Howard is the point at which adventure fiction and horror meet. Read More
Vikings on a Rampage!
Vikings on a rampage always means fun. The idea of a barbarian warrior suddenly showing up in a shopping mall or on the White House Read More
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian
Gardner F. Fox’s Crom the Barbarian is special. I have avoided it for a while because I really wanted to do it properly. I want Read More
Belmont Tower Sword & Sorcery 1968 to 1981
The history of Belmont and Tower Books (and later Belmont Tower Books) is convoluted. Belmont Books was created by the same company that owned Archie Read More
Attack of the Clones: The Tarzan Clones!
Tarzan clones became a thing in 1926, when Bomba the Jungle Boy (by the house name, Roy Rockwood) began publishing the first close imitation of Read More
The Philosophy of Fantasy: A Ramble
This piece is called “The Philosophy of Fantasy: A Ramble” because that is exactly what it is. I start here and I ramble on to Read More
Zebra Sword & Sorcery of the 1970s and 1980s
Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corporation) began in 1974 but after a year it became a source for good quality Sword & Sorcery and historical adventure Read More
Pulp Snow Monsters
New pulp snow monsters are hard to find because I’ve written about so many related creatures already. I wrote about the monsters of the Antarctic Read More
Those Fantastic Ape Monsters
Those fantastic ape monsters of Fantasy & Science Fiction show our interest in our shaggy relatives. Fiction writers produced tales of apes and apish creatures Read More