Grell's The Warlord #2 -- Fifty Years On
Mike Grell’s The Warlord was one of the great Sword-and-Sorcery comics of the 1970s. Its second issue was a particular stand-out and my introduction to the character.
Read MoreWagner, Dumas, Brackett and Louÿs: An Anniversary Round-up
This past week saw four authorial anniversaries, all with some relation to Robert E. Howard. In this post, I pay them proper—albeit brief—respects.
Read MoreDwellers in the Mirage: Definitive Edition Finally Available
When Dwellers was first published, A. Merritt was forced to change the ending at his editor’s insistence. For the first time ever, the Definitive Edition of Dwellers presents the novel with the ending exactly as Merritt wished it, without editorial interference.
Read MoreRoy Thomas: The Greatest Living Comics Writer/Editor?
Roy Thomas has been there and done that. Whether it’s bringing Conan to Marvel Comics or his taking over as editor-in-chief of Marvel after Stan Lee in the 1970s or his pivotal role in adapting sword & sorcery to the comics medium for the past half-century, Roy Thomas is a titanic figure in the history of post-WWII comics. Raise your mead-horn high.
Read MoreBrennus: The Nemesis of Rome
Brennus, the Celtic king of Senigallia, was the first man to sack Rome. It would be nearly eight hundred years before another invader matched that feat. His exploits inspired the writings of Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreThurian Age Maps and Me: Part One
Lancer Books published King Kull in 1967. Within its pages was the first map of Robert E. Howard’s Thurian Age, which epoch existed millennia before the Hyborian Age.
Read MoreThe Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is probably the most influential American writer of all time. Ernest Hemingway may have pointed to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn as the progenitor of American literature, but with all due respect to both Twain and Hemingway, no American had the influence on not only American literature but world literature that Poe did.
Read MoreBrian Murphy Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Brian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreIn Outer Space with Clark Ashton Smith Part Two: Interstellar Space
Unlike the stories set in our solar system we do not know what exists in the rest of the universe. Anything could exist, and in Smith’s fiction, often does.
Read MoreIn Outer Space with Clark Ashton Smith Part One: The Solar System
These stories, despite their astronomic setting, are not really science fiction, at least not hard SF. (If you are looking for scientific rigor, look elsewhere.) These are Weird Fiction stories set in space.
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