Monsters of the Hyborian Age 17: The Shadow-Bats of Nergal
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Tag: Ray Harryhausen
Ray Bradbury in The Saturday Evening Post
This post is brought to you by SHORT.SHARP.SHOCK, a collection of micro-fiction by G. W. Thomas. I can honestly say that Ray Bradbury was as Read More
10 Sword & Sorcery 1950s Firsts
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Sword & Sorcery Comics Go to the Movies
This post is brought to to you by the upcoming Bearshirt #5, The Beacon House and Other Stories by G. W. Thomas. This collection of Read More
Pterodactyls of the Bronze Age
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #2: The Hidden World by G. W. Thomas. The second Arthan Read More
Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Fight Scenes by Ray Harryhausen
Heroic Fantasy needs two things: Monsters and a good fight scene. Imagine Conan winning in a story by political debate. Or the Witcher settling a Read More
Lords (And Ladies) of the Dino-Jungle
Stories about people finding dinosaurs hiding in strange places go back to Victorian times. As our knowledge of prehistoric life grew, so did our fantasies 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 Visual History of the Banth
Clinton Peetteeimmortalized the image of the hero astride the back of a lion caught in a titanic struggle. That was for the cover of All-Story Read More
One Million Years BC – The Comics!
Hal Roach produced One Million Years B.C. in 1940. The film starred Victor Mature as Tumak, Carole Landis as Loana and Lon Chaney Jr. as Read More