IMAGINATION – Where Mystery Writers Wrote SF
Writers of Science Fiction and Mystery have always shared a common point of origin in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe is usually Read More
Month: November 2019
L. Sprague de Camp’s Eudoric Stories
L. Sprague de Camp was an old hand at Fantasy by the 1970s. The Conan pastiche business had slowed down since the 1960s but he Read More
Korak and Neal Macdonald
I have to admit I was confused for many years by the numbering of the DC comic Korak, Son of Tarzan. Growing up in the Read More
C. L. Grant – In the Shadow of Udolpho
I always applaud the brave. S. T. Joshi in his The Modern Weird Tale (2001) is brave. He has the critical kahunas to state that Read More
The Scale of Sword & Sorcery (or Why Conan Doesn’t Suck)
There are those Fantasy writers and critics that accuse Robert E. Howard’s Conan of lacking any depth because he just hacks his way out of Read More
Link: How Bug-Eyed Was Your Monster?
(With apologies to Robert Bloch) How fair is the label of the BEM (or bug-eyed monster) in 1930s science fiction? If you believe the detractors, Read More
The Mastermind of Mars
I don’t know if other writers have experienced this or not—that moment you became a hopeless slave. For me it was when I was twelve Read More
Conan of Aquilonia
In 1967 Lancer began the tide of Sword & Sorcery publishing with the purple-edged paperbacks of Conan. These original volumes (and I chuckle as I Read More
The Ghostbreakers Mythos
Lovecraft’s circle shared mention of their separate creations in the pages of Weird Tales, name-dropping here and there a friend’s character or some other reference. Read More
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Doc Savage Across the Genres
Doc Savage is hard to place in any one publisher’s pigeon-hole, which may be the reason Bantam Books reprinted the adventures with “Novel” on the Read More