Sword & Sorcery Archie Style!
Sword & Sorcery Archie style! Who knew? I was never a fan of Archie Comics, though like anyone in the 1970s and 1980s I read Read More
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Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Slime Monsters!
Golden Age slime monsters in the comics take their inspiration from the very first story to appear in Weird Tales (March 1923). “Ooze” by Anthony 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
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents
Snake gods and were-serpents are the rarest of creatures! Finding Pulp stories with snakes in them is not hard. Finding weird tales or even Science Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed VI
All the stories I selected this time came from magazines first, ones that occasionally published good Sword & Sorcery. You can find them if you Read More
Sword & Sorcery Roundtable #2
Session #2 of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table podcast is live! William Meikle, John O’Neil and C.L. Werner. discuss Sword and Read More
Sword & Sorcery Break & Enter
There is a small group of Sword & Sorcery tales that involve a hero in a break & enter into a wizard’s domicile. This is Read More
Conan Novels
The Conan Novels have their own history alongside that of Robert E. Howard and his famous Cimmerian. Even if you never saw a copy of Read More
The Dark One by Bill Purcell
I came across this old review I wrote for The Dark One by Bill Purcell and it got me thinking. How many now obscure books Read More
Sword and Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed V
Sword & Sorcery stories by women are under-represented on this blog. That was never my intent. The field was dominated by men from 1920s to Read More