Just Add Monsters: Conan Rewrites
This post begins: L. Sprague de Camp found himself in the position of editor and collaborator on the Conan series after 1951, when he read Read More
Tag: Robert E. Howard
Link: Your Elder Sign Is In My Eye: or, Advice For Writers Of Cthulhu Mythos Fiction
A sign of true cultural phenomenon seems to be that many people want to copy its masters endlessly. Conan the Cimmerian. Sherlock Holmes. Dracula. The Read More
Link: Fanciful Tales of Time & Space: Fan Fire
Reading a scanned copy of the original Fanciful Tales #1 (Fall 1936) fills me with so many conflicting emotions. Most of them good. On the one Read More
Sword & Sorcery Cliche #4: The Barbarian Who Hates Magic
In 1982, Gary Gygax of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fame gave us the character class “The Barbarian” in The Dragon #63 (July 1982). One of Read More
The Abduction of Henry Twigg: A Portal Fantasy
Strange Worlds #8 (August 1952) featured a Joe Kubert drawn comic called “The Abduction of Henry Twigg”. Unfortunately the writer is not known though it Read More
Fantasy Fiction: An Oasis of the Fifties
Fantasy Fiction was a Pulp magazine that ran for only four issues from March to November 1953. It was produced by Future Publications, the publisher Read More
Tolkien vs. Howard Comics
Unlike Conan and the works of Robert E. Howard, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (forget about any of Read More
Link: Clifford Ball: Apprentice to a Fallen Master
The world of fantasy was shattered in 1936 when Robert E Howard put a gun to his head and ended it all. The fledgling genre Read More
Link: Sword & Sorcery Cliche #3: The Wizard With the Unpronounceable Name
The barbarian hero hacks his way through an army of undead to finally come face-to-face with the evil necromancer who has been terrorizing the countryside. Read More
An Interview With Jason M Waltz
Jason M Waltz is the editor at Rogue Blades Entertainment, a company that focuses on action-driven Fantasy. His latest anthology is Death’s Sting—Where Art Thou? Read More