Stephen Fabian's Art For "Sword Woman"
Stephen Fabian created some great art for the Zebra edition of The Sword Woman, a collection of tales about Robert E. Howard’s Dark Agnes.
Read MoreA Look Back: Deuce's Books in 2021
A few days later than usual, but here is my yearly round-up of the books and stories I read in 2021 that I found worthy of recommendation.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 1/2/2022
This week: Karl Edward Wagner, Chris Achilleos, Conan, Arak, Manly Wade Wellman, Glenn Lord, Thieves’ World, and more.
Read MoreLamb and Howard: A Comparison
Harold Lamb was a writer of historical adventure stories and a historian himself. Robert E. Howard was the creator of Conan and really the entire genre of sword and sorcery. As Deuce Richardson points out, Lamb was highly influential on Howard.
Read MoreGlenn Lord -- Ten Years Gone
Glenn Lord died ten years ago tonight. Glenn has been called ‘The Father of REH LitCrit’ and the ‘Original Robert E. Howard Uber-fan’. Fair enough. All I know is, I wouldn’t be here, typing this now, with two Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards hanging on my wall, if Glenn Lord had never existed. Every Robert E. Howard fan owes him a debt and I’ll try to repay a small portion of mine with this post.
Read MoreArak, Son of Thunder -- Forty Years On
Arak #1 debuted from DC Comics in September of 1981. Created and written by Roy Thomas, it introduced a sword-and-sorcery protagonist who would out-perform every other S&S comics title in the 1980s with the exceptions of Conan the Barbarian and Mike Grell’s The Warlord.
Read MoreThe 'Lost Tales' of Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday today. That got me thinking about his literary legacy. While Mr. Taylor has more books in print—digitally—at this moment than at any time since the 1980s, there are quite a few of his short stories that have never been reprinted. Many of them are closely connected to his ‘Bard’ tales of Felimid mac Fal. Others are something of a mystery even to me…
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/26/2021
This week: Chris Achilléos, Michael Moorcock, Ramsey Campbell and Karl Edward Wagner meet a vampire hunter, Tarzan and Kull comics, and more.
Read MoreThings That Are Undone and Ought Not To Be: A Sword-and-Sorcery Studies Wish List
It strikes that there is a lot left to be done in the field of sword-and-sorcery studies. To paraphrase the poignant lament of Roy Batty, I don’t want to see these bits of sword-and-sorcery history lost forever, though I fear they could be.
Read MoreCirsova Issue Nine, Winter 2021 - A Full Review
The latest issue of Cirsova Magazine was published on the 15th December. It’s a long review because there are a lot of stories to cover. If you want a shorter review, I would just say “Great stories, buy it.” But if you want the luxury tour, it’s all here in black and white.
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