Keith Taylor is one of the greatest living practitioners of Sword-and-Sorcery. However, from the beginning of his career, Keith has always done a great job of incorporating horror elements into his heroic fantasy fiction. In addition, KT has written his share of actual horror tales over the course of his career. He is now about to jump into the Mythos horror field with a pair of novels. Plus, we have an update on the new Felimid mac Fal novel!
Read MoreKeith Taylor celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday today. That got me thinking about his literary legacy. While Mr. Taylor has more books in print—digitally—at this moment than at any time since the 1980s, there are quite a few of his short stories that have never been reprinted. Many of them are closely connected to his ‘Bard’ tales of Felimid mac Fal. Others are something of a mystery even to me…
Read MoreWhen Richard Fisher wrote his December 2020 post in honor of Keith Taylor’s birthday, I expected it to be a well-wrought tribute to one of sword-and-sorcery's living legends. And it was. What I didn't expect was a bombshell announcement from Mr. Taylor himself in the comments section.
Read MoreToday being Keith Taylor’s birthday, it got me to thinking about just when I became a full-blown fan of his work. It was in the spring of my junior year of high school. That’s when I bought Bard II.
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