It is often said that good characters are complex like real people. The truth is that real people are complex to the point of contradiction. Four writers come to mind who understand that: Robert E. Howard, Mike Grell, Gene Wolfe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Marvel Comic’s John Carter, Warlord of Mars debuted in 1977. It had great writers and great art…but was gone far too soon. Regardless, it echoed on into Marvel’s Star Wars series and even one of the ‘X-books’ of the 1980s.

Excalibur, directed by John Boorman, had a lot going against it in 1981. One thing it did not have going against it was Bob Peak being its cinema poster artist.

Today marks the two-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, of course. However, it also marks other notable anniversaries...several with connections to Robert E. Howard.

James Allison remembers the days when mammoths roamed…and when eldritch horror was cloaked in deceptive beauty.

"The Valley of the Worm" is one of Robert E. Howard's most celebrated tales of heroic fantasy. Howard intended for his story to narrate an archetypal legend—that of man versus monster—which has been repeated from generation to generation since the dawn of mankind.