Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed and May Not Care
In our last segment I mention four great stories I would want you to enjoy. This time the sentiment is more, well if you don’t Read More
In our last segment I mention four great stories I would want you to enjoy. This time the sentiment is more, well if you don’t Read More
After all the recent vampire silliness it is nice to be reminded that an author can actually do something with the idea of the vampire Read More
GW: What attracted you to Sword and Sorcery? What made you want to write it yourself? CDA: I developed a love for Science Fiction at Read More
This piece uses quotes from the Gutenberg version of Grettir the Strong. Available here. Grettir the Strong is a 13th Century heroic saga of the Read More
Uninformed critics have written off the Thongor novels as a bad Conan the Barbarian copy. This really isn’t true. Thongor the character is very much Read More
Leigh Brackett was one quarter of Space Opera’s Big Four (Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore. These four were actually two married couples who Read More
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More
In 2008, Marvel did Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft with adaptations of the Old Gentleman from Providence. But this wasn’t Marvel’s first go at the Mythos. Read More
C. L. Moore was famous in several ways, first as a writer of space opera, then as half of the Science Fiction team “Lewis Padgett”. Read More
In October 1975 an unknown writer named Dennis More appeared in Ted White’s Fantastic, his first tale garnering the cover by Marcus Boaz. The story Read More