Monsters of the Hyborian Age 15: The Slug of Larsha
If you missed the last one… “The Hall of the Dead” was an L. Sprague de Camp composition based on a Robert E. Howard outline. Read More
Category: Robert E. Howard
Conan the Barbarian: Archie Style!
If you missed the last one… Everything Archie #111 (May 1984) offers a new Conan for the 1980s. An epic, like all good Fantasy, begins Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: Cube From Space
If you missed the last one… Leigh Brackett was the queen of Space. There are so many good stories to choose from but I decided Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1980s
If you missed the last one… The 1980s offered some new wrinkles to old dragons. One of these was the new paper quality of independent Read More
Bronze Age Dragons: 1970s
Fire-breathing dragons! You won’t find any T. rexes or giant snakes here. These are Bronze Age Dragons, with wings and fiery breath. (well, mostly.) I Read More
The Dark Worlds Podcast: Oliver Brackenbury
M. D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas talk with Oliver Brackenbury about Sword & Sorcery, fundraising, New Edge Sword & Sorcery and other topics like Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of 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 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