On November 2nd DMR Books will bring Manly Wade Wellman’s final novel Cahena back into print for the first time since 1986. Rich in historical detail and dramatic action, this is a story to rival the great war epics of all time.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Gary Gygax on Jack Vance, Weird Tales, Planet Stories, Dune, and more.
Read MoreShadow of the Wolf is a book that I first read back in 2013. I decided to re-read it and refresh my memory. It was even better than I remembered it to be. Anyone looking for violent, bloody and sex-filled historical S&S will not be disappointed.
Read MoreThere are surprising parallels between Merritt’s The Metal Monster and Robert E. Howard’s tale of Kull, “The Striking of the Gong”.
Read MoreThis week: Solomon Kane, Corum, shoggoths, Choose Your Own Adventure, Henry Kuttner, viking metal, and more.
Read MoreFrank Herbert’s Dune contains numerous layers of reference, resonance and meaning. Some of those resonances have a distinctly Howardian feel.
Read MoreComics legend, Howard Chaykin, turned seventy years old today. A fifty-year veteran of the industry, he's known more nowadays for his controversial comics series of the last three-plus decades. However, he initially made his bones in the '70s doing lots of cool space opera and sword and sorcery.
Read MoreToday Steve Tompkins would have turned 60, had he not passed into the West back on March 23, 2009. Steve was only 48 years old when he died and the world of Howard studies is far poorer for it.
Read MoreAs eloquent, insightful and amusing as ever, Steve Tompkins addressed the paucity of good sword & sorcery movies and pointed out how S&S fans kind of make do by enjoying films that display some of the elements found in the sacred genre.
Read MoreOctober 6, 2020, would have been the sixtieth birthday of Steve Tompkins. Steve died of a heart-attack back on March 23, 2009, at the age of 48. His untimely death was, of course, a profound tragedy to those who had the pleasure of knowing him personally.
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