With the success of the previous volume, Parallel Universe returns with a follow up S&S anthology, this time expanding the table of contents to ten stories. Vol.2 features more beautiful art by the esteemed Jim Pitts.
Read MoreSir Walter Scott turned two hundred and fifty yesterday. Descended from bloody Border Reivers, he created the market for historical fiction novels. In the process, Walter inspired everyone from Leonid Tolstoy to George R.R. Martin. Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock as well.
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborea, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Lovecraftian films and music, PulpFest, The Witcher, and more.
Read MoreClark Ashton Smith died sixty years ago today. He helped lay the foundations of sword-and-sorcery. A master of prose and poetry, Clark’s influence continues decades after his death.
Read MoreGene 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.
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