Links of Steel, 2/4/2024
This week: Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, the Death Dealer, Philip Jose Farmer, the Avon Fantasy Reader, and more.
Read MoreMore Merritt in 2024!
Finishing up the 2024 Guest Bloggerama, Doug Ellis has some bombshell news for A. Merritt fans!
Read MoreWhat Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader asked me a great question the other day. He asked: If you could only have one book to sum up the superstars of the [S&S] genre, which one would you pick?
Read MoreBarsoom Eternal: Roger Zelazny’s "A Rose for Ecclesiastes". An Appreciation
“A Rose for Ecclesiastes” was a triumphant re-telling of the great pulp story. Mars as the home of a mysterious alien civilisation, a secret history of triumph and collapse, played out in a past age while Earthmen fought battles with swords and spears.
Read MoreKarl Edward Wagner Day Coming This October!
Will Oliver decided to get like-minded Karl Edward Wagner fans together in Knoxville this coming October to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Karl’s mortality. Read on to find out more.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 1/28/2024
This week: Conan, Celtic fantasy, Karl Edward Wagner Day, Robert Holdstock, Ramsey Campbell, Greg Staples, Lovecraft, and more.
Read MoreArtistic Aurae in H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” and the “Pickman’s Model” Segment of Night Gallery; a Short Review
Distrust of technological and scientific progress, of Modernism, of Realism, et cetera: that sort of pessimism inhabits H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model,” the storyline of which expresses the wickedness engineered in the nightmare that it envisions, a world haunted by atrocities and fanaticism.
Read MoreRusty Burke: Joking and Swearing
Sarcasm and swear-words have returned to Rusty Burke’s repertoire, indicating more cognitive progress after his near-fatal fall in December.
Read MoreMister Bad Thing and the Horror From the Mound
“The Horror From the Mound”, is a favorite weird western of mine written by Robert E. Howard. It’s possible that Cabeza de Vaca’s early accounts of exploring Texas inspired Howard to write his classic yarn.
Read MoreConan, Tannhauser & the State
As free-agents of the hard-boiled school, Conan and Mattias Tannhauser share a deep skepticism of the State. Kingship, the demands and prerogatives of the State, all that is meaningless in comparison to a man’s honor and loyalty to his dearest friends.
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