Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of the most successful authors of the twentieth century. He also influenced sword and sorcery authors such as Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock.
Read MoreJoe Jusko has been creating beautiful paintings based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs for over twenty-five years. One could almost say he was born to illustrate ERB.
Read MoreNext week will see the release of the 20th title from DMR Books. Necromancy in Nilztiria contains thirteen stories of adventure and wonder with a touch of gallows humor.
Read MoreThis week: Jack Vance, a Dio comic book, Michael Moorcock, Eternal Champion, Robert E. Howard, Dune, and more.
Read MoreSo what about this "First Dynasty" business? That would refer to Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner and Fritz Leiber. In that order. Those writers produced the vast bulk of sword and sorcery literature from 1929 through 1939.
Read MoreKelly Freas’ art epitomizes the look of what’s known as the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Gorgeous color, beautiful women, sleek spaceships and a universe blazing with stars.
Read MoreThis week: Elric, Conan, Frazetta, Leiber, CAS, Ray Bradbury, Tarzan, and more.
Read MoreRay Bradbury took a half-written planetary adventure story started by Leigh Brackett and finished it, creating a minor classic in the process. As Leigh herself said--with thirty years to think on it--Bradbury did a better job than she would have.
Read MoreIn Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith both comment extensively regarding A. Merritt and his fiction. Included in this post is a comment by CAS to another correspondent regarding The Ship of Ishtar.
Read MoreLovecraft was nothing if not a writer of letters. It was one of his defining traits. His correspondence with Clark Ashton Smith is among his great legacies. Fortunately, Hippocampus Press has finally published Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith in fairly affordable trade paperback editions.
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