LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell Read More
Category: Fantasy
Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 11: 1981
If you missed the last one… The blending of genres continues in 1981, with many stories falling into the Science Fiction category. SF was big Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1928-1929
If you missed the last one… 1928 and 1929 show a real improvement over the previous years for serials. This is largely in part to Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1926-1927
If you missed the last one… After the last two years, 1926-1927 seem thin, indeed. Only one Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, and it’s a Western. Read More
The Inkers of John Buscema’s Savage Sword
In Savage Sword of Conan – The Original Marvel Years Omnibus v01 (2019), Roy Thomas tells how John Buscema did not like Alfred Alcala’s incredible Read More
Galeria de Personajes Fantásticos
Pin-ups (or mere filler) aren’t unique to Sword & Sorcery’s most famous magazine, Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan. That black&white publication offered multiple portfolios and Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1924-1925
If you missed the last one… 1924-1925 proved a good two years if you liked novel serials with four by Edgar Rice Burroughs, two by Read More
The Evolution of the Monster Story
The Monster Story has changed. As with all genres and sub-genres this happens over time. But the more they change, the more they stay the Read More
The Arabian Knight
Treasure Comics from Prize Comics offered a heroic fantasy series with “The Arabian Knight”. The character’s name is a play on the source material for Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Manor Books
Manor Books was the bottom of the barrel in the late 1970s. Ballantine, ACE, later DAW were the prime markets for Sword & Sorcery in Read More