Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on this day in 1850. Whether it be historical adventure or cautionary weird tale, Stevenson's prose is exhilarating and compelling enough to persist long after his death 120 years ago, and his legacy as an author is more than assured among the literary giants of eternity.
Read MoreThis week: Manly Wade Wellman, Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Aleister Crowley, and more.
Read MoreLyon Sprague de Camp died on this date in 2000 AD. He left an interesting legacy, to say the least.
Read MoreThere is something unique to the fear of being out alone in the wild. It is this elemental fear that, along with Algernon Blackwood’s craftsmanship, gives the stories their power.
Read MoreLegendary publisher Donald A. Wollheim died on this date 30 years ago. We asked author and journalist Cliff Biggers, who knew Wollheim personally, to share his memories of the man behind DAW Books.
Read MoreThis week: HPL, Jeff Jones, Tarzan, Hawkwind, Manly Wade Wellman, and plenty more weird horror and sword and sorcery.
Read MoreJohn Keats’ poem, “La Belle Dame sans Merci”, remains a classic and it inspired Tim Powers’ novel, The Stress of Her Regard.
Read MoreGunthar, Warrior of the Lost World combines the first three Gunthar stories and adds a new previously unreleased novella. The setting is a post-apocalyptic world filled with lost technology, mutants, and magic. A world where you must survive by the strength of your arm and sharpness of your wit.
Read MoreThe Edgar Allan Poe Portfolio by Bernie Wrightson was the first portfolio he ever published, setting the stage for even greater triumphs.
Read MoreTim Willocks' birthday has rolled around again. I've had my hardcover copy of The Religion at my bedside the last couple of weeks, doing fairly random rereads . What strikes me now, just as it did in the winter of 2011, is just how quotable the novel is. Like The Iliad--to which I've compared it on numerous occasions--The Religion has sentences and passages on nearly every page which can stand on their own as things of worth. Sometimes bloody, sometimes beautiful, sometimes philosophical. Often all three at once.
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