Robert E. Howard: Songs of Death and Images of Night
A Halloween look at Night Images from 1976. Plus, some bonus morbid and spectral verses from the Underwood of Robert Ervin Howard.
Read MoreA Voice from the Past - The Book of Taliesin
As someone who writes a great deal of heroic fantasy set in a Dark Age Britain (or an ‘early medieval’ Britain, as the scholars would have it now, but they have no ear for poetry) with the serial numbers filed off, it behoves me to have some idea of what those ages were actually like. Thankfully, I have the recently-published The Book of Taliesin.
Read MoreTo Dree, Or Not To Dree?
So, the other day I was rereading the first chapter of Robert E. Howard’s "People of the Black Circle" and I hit this line:
"Again that far, weirdly dreeing cry, from realms immeasurable."
That word, "dreeing." Obviously, the gerund form of "dree." But what was "dree"? What did it mean?
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