Links of Steel, 1/21/2024
This week: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Tim Powers, C.L. Moore, Beowulf, Lord Dunsany, and more.
Read MoreThis week: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Tim Powers, C.L. Moore, Beowulf, Lord Dunsany, and more.
Read MoreFor me personally, A. Merritt’s greatest achievement was in opening my eyes to a wider conception of fantasy.
Read MoreThere are few terrors more gripping than the prospect of being buried alive. Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the horror tale, wrote a number of stories about that horrific yet fascinating topic.
Read MoreBaen is billing this as a S&S series. I have to disagree. It is something else entirely. Something different. Something more.
Read MoreWhatever his flaws as a writer, Carter’s enthusiasm comes through clearly in Lost Worlds, and in reading it, some of it was imparted to me.
Read MoreThe Land That Time Forgot uses science to build the world of Caspak, but the foundations are pure adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs combines all sorts of wild concepts into a ripping yarn worthy of any adventure fan's library. A century later, it is still by no means ‘forgotten’.
Read MoreRusty Burke is showing marked improvement in his condition. Read on to learn more.
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith, Wagner's Kane, Robert E. Howard, Frazetta's Fire & Ice, Jack Vance and more.
Read MoreClark Ashton Smith was a pioneer of the S&S genre. His “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros” was the first sword-and-sorcery story he ever wrote. It is also, possibly, the most influential tale he told within that genre.
Read MoreThe White Company was Arthur Conan Doyle’s tribute to chivalry and the Middle Ages. He considered it his best novel. Robert E. Howard and George MacDonald Fraser were both fans of it.
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