Pulp Snow Monsters
New pulp snow monsters are hard to find because I’ve written about so many related creatures already. I wrote about the monsters of the Antarctic Read More
Tag: Robert E. Howard
Those Fantastic Ape Monsters
Those fantastic ape monsters of Fantasy & Science Fiction show our interest in our shaggy relatives. Fiction writers produced tales of apes and apish creatures Read More
Ten Reasons Why Sword & Sorcery…
Here are ten reasons to read or write Sword & Sorcery? Why bother? Isn’t heroic fantasy just an over-worked Pulp convention that Robert E. Howard Read More
The Fantasy Vampires of Clark Ashton Smith
This post begins: The vampires of Clark Ashton Smith are something different in the pages of Weird Tales. “The Unique Magazine” had plenty of tales Read More
The Monsters of the Hyborian Age 4: Thog the Slithering Shadow
In case you missed the last monster…. Thog the Slithering Shadow is without doubt the most Lovecraftian of all Robert E. Howard’s monsters. Formless, tentacled, Read More
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents
Snake gods and were-serpents are the rarest of creatures! Finding Pulp stories with snakes in them is not hard. Finding weird tales or even Science Read More
The Dweller in the Tomb: Mythos Mimic II
“The Dweller in the Tomb” by Henry Kuttner is a Mythos mimic of another kind. In the last installment, Frederick Cowles’ “The House on the Read More
Live Nude Girls
I imagine I have your attention now. The nude in art is, according to art historians, an almost exclusively Western phenomenon. Ancient Greeks made statues Read More
Sword & Sorcery Roundtable #2
Session #2 of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table podcast is live! William Meikle, John O’Neil and C.L. Werner. discuss Sword and Read More
Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Comic Stories of the 1970s
In preparation for this weekend’s next session of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table, I am looking over my favorite comics, games Read More