Cimmerian Remembrance: "If Nobody but a Pure Celt Wore the Green..."
For the majority of the time that he wrote for Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard was an unabashed fan of the Celts—especially the Gaels of Ireland.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Robert Mammone
“What readers get from me is authenticity. That the world is shades of grey, not the black and whites so many on both extremes peddle to those inside their bubble. You’ll find characters who are exhausted at what life has done to them, yet keep putting one foot in front of the other because what else can you do?“
Read MoreRusty Burke: Back at Home and Back on the Phone
Acclaimed Robert E. Howard scholar, Rusty Burke, suffered a near-fatal injury in December. The latest news is that he’s back home and doing better! Read on for more details.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/24/2024
This week: Conan, James M. Ward, Dune, C.L. Moore, Poul Anderson, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Weird Tales, and more.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: K.T. Elfering
“My characters tend to want things that are bad for themselves or others, and I like to write endings for them that are both tragic and ecstatic. I think the way I write characters is influenced by my theater background—I try to picture them "onstage" in a sense—and I also enjoy observing real people and their bizarre tendencies, something that influences both my writing and my acting.”
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/17/2024
This week: Red Sonja, Dune, Cú Chulainn, Leigh Brackett, William Hope Hodgson, Conan, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, and more.
Read MoreBarbarian Comics
Jim Zub’s Conan comics mostly capture the flavor of Howard’s stories. Not perfectly since Howard was such a unique writer. The art is reminiscent of the original Marvel Conan run which has delighted fans of the original comics.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Wade German
“Some of my readers and reviewers have said my work conjures an atmosphere that is a little more alien and peculiar than others. I’ve been happy to hear that, since I observe what Lovecraft said about the aesthetics of weird literature, viz., “atmosphere is all-important.”
Read MoreDark Dreams of Nilztiria by D.M. Ritzlin Coming in April
In 2020, I published Necromancy in Nilztiria, my first collection of sword-and-sorcery and dark fantasy stories set in a world of my own creation. This April nine new tales of this fabled land will appear in Dark Dreams of Nilztiria, detailing the exploits of infamous heroes such as the cursed warrior Vran the Chaos-Warped, the freewheeling barbarian Avok Kur Storn, and the enigmatic wizard Xaarxool the Necromancer.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/10/2024
This week: Conan, Brian Stableford, Dune, Poul Anderson, Harold Lamb, Leigh Brackett, and more.
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