I was on social media a little bit ago and saw somebody wishing everyone a ‘Happy Hollow Earth Day!’. A quick online search didn’t turn up anything definitive, which means nothing. The whole thing could’ve been shadow-banned by Those Who Dwell in the Valley of Silicon with none the wiser. All I can say is, if there isn’t such a thing, there should be.
Read MoreRichard F. Burton exerted a huge influence upon the dawn of the Heroic Age of Exotic Adventure Fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling were among his admirers.
Read MoreThis week: Reviews of Renegade Swords, Ken Kelly, Clark Ashton Smith, sword and sandal movies, Tarzan comics, Robert E. Howard, and more.
Read MoreRichard F. Burton was a writer and a poet, on top of being an anthropologist, an archaeologist, a geographer, a linguist, a mystic, a swordsman, a spy and a sexologist. Writing and poetry, not exploration or geography, are the through-lines to be seen from one end of his life to the other. RFB was a man of the written word, with few rivals during his era when it comes to quality and even fewer when it comes to quantity. He influenced authors from Arthur Conan Doyle to Philip Jose Farmer…and he still inspires authors today.
Read MoreHoward Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was, like that looming spectre of his written works, a master of the Weird, and his driving focus without a doubt was to whet his tools of Cosmicism, which had given rise to his hallmark style, one to which Genre savants of this modern-day might refer as “Lovecraftian Horror.”
Read MoreThis week: Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard film adaptations, Virgil Finlay, Edmond Hamilton, dragons, Manilla Road, Thieves’ World, and more.
Read MorePublished in 2017 was Jeffro Johnson’s book Appendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons. At the time, Johnson’s Appendix N was the only in-depth exploration of how the works listed in Appendix N related to the development of D&D. Now comes along a book with a suspiciously similar title, Peter Bebergal’s Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons.
Read MoreShadowridge Press owner Robert Barr says a few words about Manly Wade Wellman, with this being the anniversary of Manly's passing thirty-five years ago.
Read MorePreliminary nominations for the 2020 and 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards are now live! There is a small window in which to nominate, so get your nominees in to the REHF now.
Read MoreThis week: Frazetta’s Tarzan, Kull, snake monsters, Gene Wolfe, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, and more.
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