Rusty Burke: Still Improving
Howard scholar, Rusty Burke, almost died last December. He’s had a long rehabilitation, but his condition is improving. Read on for further details.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/3/2024
This week: Conan, C.L. Moore, Dune, Howard Andrew Jones, Swords Against Darkness, Clark Ashton Smith, Poul Anderson, Frank Frazetta, and more.
Read MoreStephen Fabian: In Lovecraft's Shadow (Part Three)
In Lovecraft's Shadow, profusely illustrated by the legendary artist, Stephen Fabian, was published in 1998. That book contained most of August Derleth's Mythos-related short stories and poetry. This is the third blog entry in which I present the great Fabian art from that edition.
Read MoreReview: Sinbad and the Great Old Ones by Gavin Chappell
The exotic and fantastical adventures of Sinbad have thrilled readers for generations, while the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos has ensnared just as many for almost as long. Never would I have envisioned the two existing together in one story...until now.
Read MoreReview: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Omnibus
Reading “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber was a formative experience for me. I was impressed by Mignola’s covers. This was not the first time Mignola drew Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, however. He also worked on a comic series by Dark Horse about the Twain with Howard Chaykin.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 2/25/2024
This week: Elric, Conan, Bruce Dickinson, Joe Abercrombie, Captain Blood, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack Williamson, The Thing (1982), Dracula, and more.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords (and Strange Sorceries) of Frank Brunner
Frank Brunner became a fantasy art legend in the ‘70s illustrating the likes of Conan, Elric, Red Sonja and Doctor Strange.
Read More21st Century Sword-and-Sorcery: Flashing Swords Ezine and Black Gate
The mid-to-late 2000s were a time of incredible energy in the small press community that published Sword-and-Sorcery. Howard Andrew Jones was right in the middle of it all, editing and writing for both the Flashing Swords ezine and at Black Gate. Meanwhile, he was also getting Harold Lamb’s pulp tales reprinted and saw his first S&S novel published in hardcover.
Read More21st Century Sword-and-Sorcery: Rogue Blades Entertainment
Rising from the ashes of PitchBlack Books and the Flashing Swords ezine, Jason M Waltz formed Rogue Blades Entertainment in 2008. RBE has spanned the gap between the earliest small press publishers of the 2000s and the S&S resurgence of today.
Read More21st Century Sword-and-Sorcery: PitchBlack LLC
David Pitchford and Daniel E. Blackston started PitchBlack LLC in early 2004. PitchBlack were pioneers in restarting quality small press Sword-and-Sorcery publications in the 21st century. David Pitchford tells their story in this essay.
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