Sword & Sorcery: The First Paperbacks
This post is brought to you by the upcoming collection of young Arthan stories, Bearshirt #5: The Beacon House, the fifth book in the series Read More
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Fanzines: A Place To Start
This post is brought to you by The Cryo Game and Other Stories, a new collection by Jack Mackenzie. Nineteen stories ranging from Science Fiction Read More
The Legacy of the Tripods
H. G. Wells changed Science Fiction forever when he gave readers the first invasion of Earth by an alien race. (Along with this idea, he Read More
Link: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
If you missed the last one… Let’s be fair right from the start and admit: Pulp fiction, all Pulp fiction hates snakes. The old Read More
New Book: Monster! on Kindle and Paperback!
contents INTRODUCTION OVERCOMING THE MONSTER: SF, F & H THE MONSTER STORY THE UNNAMEABLE: THE MONSTER AS EUPHEMISM THE VAMPIRE AS LOTHARIO THE WOMAN WITH Read More
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Comic Ads
It’s not hard for some us to remember Dungeons & Dragons (we never used the “Advanced” much. We just called it “Dee-N-Dee”) back in the Read More
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
Four Color Dragons II
If you missed the last one… Last time I wrote about dragons with an eye to showing many different kinds of dragons from space monsters Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of Read More
The Evolution of the Monster Story
The Monster Story has changed. As with all genres and sub-genres this happens over time. But the more they change, the more they stay the Read More