The Barely-There Monsters of Thomas Malory
The Arthurian legends have a long and complicated history. Originally Celtic tales, as we can still glean from The Mabinogion, the stories in Medieval times Read More
The Arthurian legends have a long and complicated history. Originally Celtic tales, as we can still glean from The Mabinogion, the stories in Medieval times Read More
Claw the Unconquered was a DC Sword & Sorcey comic that ran for only 12 issues despite it being the closest thing to a Conan Read More
There is a fantasy realm that was important to my formative years, and it existed in an unusual place. I call it the Land of Read More
Solomon Kane is an iconic character. When Hugh Jackman plays a descendant of Abraham van Helsing, he looks like Kane. That austere warrior in the Read More
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction began its life as The Magazine of Fantasy. By the second issue the words “and Science Fiction” had Read More
Comics in the 1930s and 40s skirted heroic fantasy, their characters usually tied to fairy tales and garbled history more than Pulp literature. The biggest Read More
First, a little explanation of the title. I saw that one of the chapters in John C Wright’s book, Transhuman and Subhuman (2014) was “The Read More
I believe the movie was Spartacus (1960) with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. In an early scene, the trainer of the gladiators is showing the Read More
Howard Larsen is best remembered for EC Comics’ Crime Patrol though he drew for Wild Bill Hickock, Jungle Comics and others. For two short issues Read More
In the last segment on riding beasts we focused largely on Barsoom and Amtor, or Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars and Venus, and similar types of Read More