To me, the word “Rakehell” conjures images of swashbuckling derring-do and perhaps a little illicit romance. Historically a rakehell was a man who habituated immoral conduct, particularly womanizing. This issue includes six stories of varied interest and relevance to the title.
Read MoreThis week: Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, the Death Dealer, Philip Jose Farmer, the Avon Fantasy Reader, and more.
Read MoreFinishing up the 2024 Guest Bloggerama, Doug Ellis has some bombshell news for A. Merritt fans!
Read MoreA 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 More“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 MoreWill 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 MoreThis week: Conan, Celtic fantasy, Karl Edward Wagner Day, Robert Holdstock, Ramsey Campbell, Greg Staples, Lovecraft, and more.
Read MoreDistrust 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 MoreSarcasm and swear-words have returned to Rusty Burke’s repertoire, indicating more cognitive progress after his near-fatal fall in December.
Read More“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.
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