Frontispieces From Savage Sword of Conan
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Category: Fantasy
Edmond Hamilton’s The Lake of Life
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures, a collection of world-spanning Horror-Adventure tales coming out in early 2025. Like Edmond Hamilton, I enjoy Read More
More Gold Key Heroic Fantasy Tales
If you missed the last one… I’ve written about stories that might appeal to Sword & Sorcery fans in the Western comics before. I focused Read More
Thirteen Ghosts (of Celluloid)
Halloween is gone and Christmas is still a number of weeks away. I like to think of the time between October 31 and December 25 Read More
The Dragons of Archie Comics
If you missed the last one… Like humorous dragons? You can’t do any better than T. Neil Thomas’ The Masterless Assassin , which features a Read More
The Day of the Dragon
Science Fiction and Fantasy has always been on a seesaw. At one time it is considered to be worthy of the word “literature” and then Read More
James Allison in “The Tower of Time”
Reading Harvey K. Schreiber’s “Death From the Sea” got me reading other old issues of Fantastic where I found this story. “The Tower of Time” Read More
Harvey K. Schreiber’s The Eagle and the Sword
Ted White, when he was the editor of Fantastic (April 1969-January 1979), did big things with very little money. This meant he grabbed Sword & Read More
The Solomon Kane Adventures of Don Glut
If you missed the last one… Solomon Kane, unlike Conan, Kull or Red Sonja, never had a long-running Marvel series that required different writers to Read More
Link: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
If you missed the last one… Let’s be fair right from the start and admit: Pulp fiction, all Pulp fiction hates snakes. The old Read More