Karl Edward Wagner: Born For Blood and Darkness

December 04, 2020 by Deuce Richardson

Karl Edward Wagner was born on this date seventy-five years ago. By the age of thirty, he was making waves in both the genres of Horror and of Sword and Sorcery. At the time of his untimely death in 1994, he was already a legend.

Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Robert W. Chambers

December 16, 2018 by Deuce Richardson

Robert William Chambers died eighty-five years ago today. Once one of the most popular authors in America, Chambers' handful of weird tales—The King in Yellow paramount among them—are what keep him in the public eye a century later.