Today marks the one hundred and fifteenth birthday of Catherine Lucille “C.L.” Moore. Hailed as a ‘Grandmaster of Fantasy’ and also ‘The Queen of Sword and Sorcery’ by some, Moore contributed mightily to Weird Tales in the 1930s and then blazed trails in the sci-fi realm with her husband, Henry Kuttner.
Read MoreToday marks the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of Robert E. Howard’s birth. This year, 2026, also marks the ninetieth anniversary of Howard’s death. Thirty years and change. A little over ten years of that comprised his career as a published author. However, that decade changed the literary world…and changed my life in particular.
Read MoreRoy Thomas was instrumental in bringing Howardian and Lovecraftian concepts and characters to Marvel Comics during the early 1970s. Far lesser-known are his efforts to get the word out about Clark Ashton Smith in the mid-1990s by way of Marvel’s Conan comics.
Read MoreKeith 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 MoreWe’re going to close out 2025 by offering a wide variety of our titles at 25% (or more) for the rest of the year.
Read MoreThis past week saw four authorial anniversaries, all with some relation to Robert E. Howard. In this post, I pay them proper—albeit brief—respects.
Read MoreBrennus, the Celtic king of Senigallia, was the first man to sack Rome. It would be nearly eight hundred years before another invader matched that feat. His exploits inspired the writings of Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreLancer Books published King Kull in 1967. Within its pages was the first map of Robert E. Howard’s Thurian Age, which epoch existed millennia before the Hyborian Age.
Read MoreBrian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreDuring the first decade of his literary career, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a man on fire, creating not just Tarzan and John Carter, but also many novels now (unjustly) forgotten. Toward the end of his life, with zero effs to give, ERB wrote some very interesting tales that one wouldn’t expect. Let’s look at a few of them.
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