Stephen Fabian has illustrated everyone from Robert E. Howard to Fritz Leiber to Jack Vance to Gene Wolfe, creating art for publishers such as Arkham House, Donald M. Grant and TSR. In 2006, Mr. Fabian received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. He is, without a doubt, a living legend of fantasy art.
Read MoreRobert Ardrey wrote for Broadway. Robert E. Howard wrote for the pulps. Both perceived the bloody savage lurking beneath the veneer of civilization.
Read MoreA. Merritt's landmark heroic fantasy novel, The Ship of Ishtar, still resonates a solid century after its first publication. Since that time, it has inspired classic tales from the likes of Robert E. Howard, Leigh Brackett and Michael Moorcock.
Read MoreI attended Howard Days 2023 with several friends: Ken Lizzi, Brian Murphy, Jimmy Jarman and several others. It was a long road getting there.
Read MoreThe Battle of Clontarf was an inspiration to Robert E. Howard. It also inspired numerous excellent works of art, especially during the last half-century.
Read MoreFor the majority of the time that he wrote for Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard was an unabashed fan of the Celts—especially the Gaels of Ireland.
Read MoreThe 1990s were a pretty horrible time for Sword-and-Sorcery. However, by the early 2000s, there were signs of a new dawn for S&S.
Read More“The Horror From the Mound”, is a favorite weird western of mine written by Robert E. Howard. It’s possible that Cabeza de Vaca’s early accounts of exploring Texas inspired Howard to write his classic yarn.
Read MoreAs free-agents of the hard-boiled school, Conan and Mattias Tannhauser share a deep skepticism of the State. Kingship, the demands and prerogatives of the State, all that is meaningless in comparison to a man’s honor and loyalty to his dearest friends.
Read MoreClark Ashton Smith was a pioneer of the S&S genre. His “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros” was the first sword-and-sorcery story he ever wrote. It is also, possibly, the most influential tale he told within that genre.
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