Whoa! It has been a hectic summer here in the wilds of Essi-Keh and the anniversary of Clark Ashton Smith's mortality nearly slipped by me. Considering that Klarkash-Ton is our Dread Editor's favorite author (along with A. Merritt) and one of my own personal literary deities, this date could not go unremarked.
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Read MoreRoy G. Krenkel would have turned one hundred on July 11. I was quite busy with real world issues at that point, but I figured that someone out there somewhere would do a substantial centennial write-up. The other day I performed a fairly rigorous internet search and found nothing, more or less. I resolved to do my own write-up…
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Read MoreIn the days when Rome was young, a forest populated by fantastic creatures stood near the Etruscan city of Sutrium. Lars Velcha, a nobleman of Sutrium, abducts a Water Sprite named Vel for his daughter Tanaquil to use as a slave. Tanaquil and Vel befriend Arnth, a wandering minstrel, and together contrive a plan to free the Water Sprite.
Read More“A most unusual volume of swashbuckling high adventure stories with a heavy accent on the fantastic” promises the back cover.
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Read MoreHaggard stands at the fountainhead and nexus of what I call "exotic adventure fiction." Such fiction moves beyond the sort of stories told up until that time--adventures of pirates, cowboys, swashbucklers, explorers and whatnot-- and adds something extra, something over the top, something truly exotic.
Read MoreToday marks the centennial of the first publication of A. Merritt's novelette, "The Moon Pool." Such a small thing--only about twenty thousand words--but one that has had an extraordinarily outsized impact in the century since.
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