Cormac FitzGeoffrey is perhaps the most notable of all the protagonists that Robert E. Howard created in his ‘Crusader’ stories; tales written with a significant element of historical realism. Cormac is reminiscent of Conan: tall stature, tigerish strength, fierce blue eyes, jet-black hair…and a force of nature on the battlefield.
Read MoreHere we are, sixty years after Harold was laid in his grave. Sword-and-Sorcery authors like David Drake, Howard Andrew Jones, Scott Oden and S.M. Stirling still sing his praises.
Read MoreHarold Lamb was a writer of historical adventure stories and a historian himself. Robert E. Howard was the creator of Conan and really the entire genre of sword and sorcery. As Deuce Richardson points out, Lamb was highly influential on Howard.
Read MoreHarold Lamb died on this date in 1962. He left behind a staggering amount of quality fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the very top contributors to one of the premiere pulps, Adventure, and went on to become a popular and award-winning historian.
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