Keith Taylor is one of the greatest Sword-and-Sorcery authors of the last half-century. A living legend. Last January, he sat down for a video interview. I review that, plus provide some updates on Felimid mac Fal and Keith’s new novel, Damned From Birth.
Read MoreKeith 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 has a new Felimid novel in the works: Sunspear. In this interview, Keith talks about everything from Cormac Mac Art to the ‘Bard’ series and upcoming projects.
Read MoreThere are several elements in “The Enchantment” that make it stand out as one of Barry Windsor-Smith’s more mysterious works. Let’s take a look.
Read MoreI’ve long thought about what a shame it was that Irish fantasy artist extraordinaire, Jim FitzPatrick, hadn’t been hired by Ace Books to do the covers for Keith Taylor’s ‘Danans’ series of heroic fantasy novels. Thus, this post.
Read MoreMost readers of Sword and Sorcery are fans of Keith Taylor’s Bard series of stories and novels set in historical Post-Roman Britain. They are indeed some of the best S&S tales to come out of the late '70s/early '80s, but some folks might not know of some of his other heroic fantasy/S&S works that came later. I’m talking about The Danans trilogy of Historical Fantasy, published in the late '80s and early '90s.
Read More“Sword and Planet is my favorite genre. Traditionally an earthman arrives somehow, and has to make his way on an alien world with his wits and prowess. When I heard about this anthology I was very excited. What I encountered was something different than I was expecting.”
Read MoreDMR Books has a Halloween treat in store for fans of both horror and fantasy: the new anthology Samhain Sorceries! In these haunting tales of swords and sorcery, the dead will rise, dark rituals will be performed, and gateways to the afterworld will open.
Read MoreIt seemed to me that I should revisit my old essay for The Cimmerian blog, “The Sword-and-Sorcery Legacy of Clark Ashton Smith”. While recognition of Klarkash-Ton as the co-founder of Sword-and-Sorcery has increased since I wrote that essay in 2010—most notably in Brian Murphy’s excellent Flame and Crimson—it appears to me that Smith’s influence on the S&S genre is still very undervalued.
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…
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