Link: Of Shadows & Serpents – The First Sword & Sorcery Tale
When people think of 1929 they usually recall the Great Depression and “Black Tuesday” (October 29th). I prefer to think of it as the year Read More
Tag: Robert E. Howard
The Cases of Jules de Grandin – Part 4
This post is brought to you by The Book of the Black Sun II by G. W. Thomas, a Cthulhu Mythos collection with a difference. Read More
J. Allen St. John at Weird Tales
J. Allen St. John (1872-1957) will always be remembered first and foremost as the artist who brought the imaginative worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs to Read More
Astro-Adventures: A Blaster from the Past
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
Wrath of the Gods by Willie Patterson
Michael Moorcock has mistakenly been attributed with writing the comic “Wrath of the Gods”, but Moorcock’s job at Boys’ World was to write text features Read More
How Long Should That Sword & Sorcery Epic Be?
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
American Heroic Fantasy Graphic Novels
The term “Graphic Novel’ was coined in November 1964 by Richard Kyle in the pages of the fanzine, Alpha-Cappa. It started to get more traction Read More
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
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