Gene Day—artist, author, publisher and cool dude in general—would’ve turned seventy today. He barely made it past thirty. While his talents and achievements were far-ranging, I’ll concentrate on his work for The Savage Sword of Conan tonight.
Read MoreIf you ask sword-and-sorcery fans what their favorite anthology series is, the answer you’re most likely to get is Swords Against Darkness. The contents hold up well today, which is no surprise, considering talents like Poul Anderson, Tanith Lee, Manly Wade Wellman, and Ramsey Campbell contributed original fiction to Swords A.D. The question remains, why didn’t the series go on longer?
Read MorePulpFest is only a week and a half away! DMR author Schuyler Hernstrom will be stopping by our table on Saturday, August 21.
Read MoreThis week: Michael Moorcock, the current Lord Dunsany, historical swashbuckler films, Jack Vance, HPL, Dracula, and more.
Read MoreThe Sturgis Motorcycle Rally began today. Bikers have been compared to ‘barbarians’ again and again. Frank Frazetta’s lone ‘biker novel’ cover is a good one.
Read MoreEdgar Allan Poe’s fantasque piece of fiction “The Island of the Fay” illustrates profoundly the importance, the puissance, and the enthralling effect of the Fantasy genre in literature, which in this day and vile age is a genre that has been grossly misrepresented, mishandled, and victimized by the loathsome banality of modernism and corporate agents of priggish censorship.
Read MoreThis week: Edgar Rice Burroughs, PulpFest, Bran Mak Morn, Tanith Lee, Clark Ashton Smith, Seven Footprints to Satan, and more.
Read MoreToday we're here to celebrate the career of one of the greatest writers to ever grace the SFF genres with his blazing talent and amazing intellect: Poul Anderson. Specifically, the capstone of his career and love-letter to his fans: Going For Infinity. Personally selected by Poul himself, this collection contains some of his finest SF and fantasy short stories.
Read MoreMichael Shea wrote Mr. Cannyharme in 1981. The H.P. Lovecraft story "The Hound" was the inspiration for this story. Although, as S.T. Joshi points out, with the elaboration of the plot and the change of setting Shea has written a novel that is far more than a literary pastiche.
Read MoreDavid Gemmell, stalwart author of numerous sword-and-sorcery/heroic fantasy novels, passed away on this date in 2006. David lived his life according to his own code. He wrote what he wanted to write and literally died doing what he loved.
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