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Link: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

October 1, 2024 G. W. Thomas 0

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

New Book: Monster! on Kindle and Paperback!

August 23, 2024 G. W. Thomas 0

contents INTRODUCTION OVERCOMING THE MONSTER: SF, F & H THE MONSTER STORY THE UNNAMEABLE: THE MONSTER AS EUPHEMISM THE VAMPIRE AS LOTHARIO THE WOMAN WITH Read More

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: The Comic Ads

June 16, 2024 G. W. Thomas 0

It’s not hard for some us to remember Dungeons & Dragons (we never used the “Advanced” much. We just called it “Dee-N-Dee”) back in the Read More

Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction

June 12, 2024 G. W. Thomas 0

Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More

Four Color Dragons II

May 17, 2024 G. W. Thomas 0

If you missed the last one… Last time I wrote about dragons with an eye to showing many different kinds of dragons from space monsters Read More

Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt

January 25, 2024 G. W. Thomas 3

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 Evolution of the Monster Story

December 15, 2023 G. W. Thomas 0

The Monster Story has changed. As with all genres and sub-genres this happens over time. But the more they change, the more they stay the Read More

The Dark Worlds Podcast: Neither Beg Nor Yield

August 21, 2023 G. W. Thomas 4

We talk with Jason Waltz from about his upcoming Sword & Sorcery anthology, NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD. G.W. Thomas and M.D. Jackson are joined by Read More