
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: George Barr (1937-)
George Barr’s art is influenced by Maxfield Parrish and his acolytes, Hannes Bok and Virgil Finlay. Like another influence, Arthur Rackham, Barr works in water Read More
George Barr’s art is influenced by Maxfield Parrish and his acolytes, Hannes Bok and Virgil Finlay. Like another influence, Arthur Rackham, Barr works in water Read More
Billy Graham (not the minister) was one of the few African-American artists working in S&S. Bill got his start at Warren with “The Beast in Read More
Nan Matol is special to the Cthulhu Mythos. This ruined city in the Western Pacific, resting on the largest of the Caroline Islands, is a Read More
On Facebook somebody said why doesn’t somebody do a list of all the authors that inspired Lin Carter’s many pastiches? Well kids, let’s give it Read More
The 1001 Nights is a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, and other folk tales including such favorites as Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Read More
With favorites you are always going to find others who have read those stories, and to those people I will apologize, but it surprises me Read More
Late in the summer of 1968 the publishing team of Betty and Ian Ballantine recognized that the success of their edition of J. R. R. Read More
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944) was famous in the day (now largely forgotten) for a series of stories about a sailor named Captain Kettle. These Read More
The 1980s saw the pinnacle of small press magazines that began back in the 1930s as fanzines and improved over the decades as copying technology Read More
One of the great things about our crazy Amazon-driven book world is that book length matters less than it used to. In the world of Read More