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
Tag: Lin Carter
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 15: The Slug of Larsha
If you missed the last one… “The Hall of the Dead” was an L. Sprague de Camp composition based on a Robert E. Howard outline. Read More
LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell 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
Copies in Bronze
It surprises me greatly that more writers haven’t pastiched the Doc Savage canon. Of those that have tried, success has varied in degrees. It is Read More
The Definition of Sword & Sorcery
I don’t waste much time on defining Sword & Sorcery but it seems to be a thing again on the Internet. Men like Lin Carter Read More
Top Ten Favorite Swords in Heroic Fantasy
The enchanted sword has been a part of heroic fantasy since the beginning. Beowulf slays Grendel’s mother with an elder blade he conveniently finds in Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XIII
If you missed the last one… “The Seal of Zaon Sathla” by Lin Carter was first published in Carter’s anthology, The Magic of Atlantis (1970). Read More
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 14: Devil of the Outer Darkness
If you missed the last one… Conan fought several flying monsters in his career, though we have only looked at the Winged Ape previously here. Read More
The Lost Cities of Mars
If you missed the last one… I am currently reading Lin Carter’s The Man Who Loved Mars (1973). It features Ilionis, “…the long-lost and extremely Read More