The Sword & Sorcery of Clark Ashton Smith
Sword & Sorcery as an idea never existed back in 1936. I chose that date because it was the year Robert E. Howard killed himself. Read More
Tag: H. P. Lovecraft
Link: Call of Cthulhu: The Old Box Set
I’m looking at my old Call of Cthulhu box set from 1982, the one with the Gene Day artwork, the cracked corners and bindings all Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
Lin Carter’s Weird Tales
Every since 1954, people have been trying to resurrect Weird Tales as if it were an undead corpse in a tale by H. P. Lovecraft. Read More
My Cthulhu Story
Back in the 1980s I was obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft. I was also a cartoonist. That’s a bad combo. Thus…. Copyright G. W. Thomas Read More
Classic Interview: C. Dean Andersson
GW: What attracted you to Sword and Sorcery? What made you want to write it yourself? CDA: I developed a love for Science Fiction at Read More
The Fiction of A. Merritt: The Moon Pool
Abraham Merritt was not a full-time pulp-slinger like many of the greats. He wrote in the early days of the Pulps, like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Read More
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
Sword & Sorcery versus Sword & Planet
A swordsman, his arms bearing red wounds, limps across a battlefield covered in bodies. His helmet is gone; his shield is broken. The flag of Read More
The Gods of East & West
In a previous article I showed how “The Tomb of Sarah” was the inspiration for one of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories. Quinn wrote Read More