
The Men Who Saved Sword & Sorcery
It’s easy to assume, while perusing through old Lancer paperbacks or any of the dozens of 1970s novels, that Sword & Sorcery was a roaring Read More
It’s easy to assume, while perusing through old Lancer paperbacks or any of the dozens of 1970s novels, that Sword & Sorcery was a roaring Read More
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the Read More
The old Pulp magazines offered everything from a gritty back street world of violence to the unimaginable planets of the far stars. Pulp fiction was Read More
Guy de Maupassant is a master of the short story. He wrote several Horror story classics as well including his masterpiece, “The Horla” (1881). These Read More
If you are going to associate a name with Sword & Sorcery comics it is usually Roy Thomas. This is ironic in that Roy has Read More
In our last segment I mention four great stories I would want you to enjoy. This time the sentiment is more, well if you don’t Read More
1950 saw Edmond Hamilton settle into his regular schedule of writing comics. Each month he would produce several scripts for different DC titles, jumping from Read More
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More
After yesterday’s post about early Marvel Mythos comics I remembered before any of those came along , there was another…. Old comics continue to surprise Read More
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More