Howard distilled the proud, heroic tradition of works like the Iliad and the Odyssey into pulse-pounding, blisteringly-paced novelettes, novellas, and shorts. Nowhere is this more obvious than in "Spears of Clontarf" and "The Grey God Passes."
Read MoreToday, I'm looking to crowdsource answers to some Merritt-related enigmas, one of which has plagued me for well over a decade.
Read MoreAs important to me as A. Merritt is, it constantly surprises me that there are still many today who have never heard of him. Actually - let me walk that back a bit. It used to surprise me.
Read MoreThis week: Vikings, Merrit, Kuttner, Moore, Zelazny and more.
Read MoreEdgar Allan Poe, who was born on the 19th of January 1809, has a great literary – and personal – connection to Scotland.
Read MoreHank Reinhardt would have turned eighty-five today. Though I never knew him personally, Hank affected my life in some unique ways and he shall receive due honor from me for that.
Read More“The fragment I worked with was first hand-written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1930. It was left unfinished, and then lay hidden in his safe for decades after his death.”
Read MoreIn 1970 and 1972, Jakes produced a duo of planetary adventure novels; MASTER OF THE DARK GATE and WITCH OF THE DARK GATE.
Read More“When you seek to destroy an absolute evil, you must destroy it absolutely. Show mercy in expunging a blight, and you only leave seeds to sprout anew. Kill them all.”
- Gaethaa the Crusader
Read MoreThe reader is treated to a well-paced array of surprisingly sensational developments, including a ghost, a sorceress, a satanic rite, and the protean, unknowable Thing that rises from the pit to harass and slay the poor humans trapped in Deeping Hold.
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