Link: Scott Rand in the Worlds of Time
Comics in the late 1930s and early 1940s were a mixed bag. Having spectacular names, promising great entertainment inside, they were generally collections of stock Read More
Month: February 2020
An Interview With Jason M Waltz
Jason M Waltz is the editor at Rogue Blades Entertainment, a company that focuses on action-driven Fantasy. His latest anthology is Death’s Sting—Where Art Thou? Read More
Death’s Sting – Where Art Thou? A Review
Rogue Blades Entertainment, 2020 Price: $4.01 Buy the Kindle on Amazon Sword & Sorcery anthologies have made a bit of a comeback lately. I’ve even Read More
Link: The War of the Worlds: Adapt or Die
HG Wells inspired so many branches of the Science Fiction tree: time travel, human-animal hybrids, invisibility, moon men, giant animals, super intelligent animals, and alien Read More
Link: The Robert Munsch Mythos
I am surprised by the universality of certain plots, not their details but their feel. Take, for instance, Robert Munsch’s The Dark (1979). (For those Read More
Link: The Darker Drink: Pseudonymous Saint
The Saint series by Leslie Charteris is known for its highly adventurous flare. In fact, Charteris really created the James Bond film feel. If you Read More
Three Sword & Sorcery Novels You May Have Missed
The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de Camp (1973) originally appeared in Fantastic (December 1972 and February 1973). It is the first of the Novaria Read More
The Call of Cthulhu: A Fan’s Declaration
Howard Phillips Lovecraft began his horror classic, “The Call of Cthulhu” (Weird Tales, February 1928) with: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, Read More
Link: Mastodonia: A Message From the Past
Sometimes writers write messages for their future selves. A great example of one who did this was Clifford D Simak. The March 1955 Galaxy published Read More
Link: Funny Mythos: Comedy & Tentacles
A new comic book called Arcane Secrets by Angel A. Svoboda (Amigo Comics) got me thinking that there aren’t many Lovecraftian comedies out there. In Read More