Sword & Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed VI
All the stories I selected this time came from magazines first, ones that occasionally published good Sword & Sorcery. You can find them if you Read More
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Sword & Sorcery in The Rook
The Rook was a Warren character who got his start in Eerie before moving onto his own magazine in October 1979. While Dane’s adventures are Read More
Mike Ploog at Warren
Before Mike Ploog made a supernatural splash at Marvel drawing The Monster of Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night, he drew four pieces for the horror Read More
The Monster Story
Origins Originally I was going to start this with “The Monster Story begins with Frankenstein” but with a little more thought I realized something. It Read More
Conan Novels
The Conan Novels have their own history alongside that of Robert E. Howard and his famous Cimmerian. Even if you never saw a copy of Read More
The Dark One by Bill Purcell
I came across this old review I wrote for The Dark One by Bill Purcell and it got me thinking. How many now obscure books Read More
The Towers of Fantasy
The Pulps The towers of fantasy fiction have always been locations of sorcery, mystery and strife. If the bad guy lives in a tower, whether Read More
The Gothic in Sword & Sorcery
Pulp Origins Sword & Sorcery, from its very first story in 1929 was steeped in the Gothic. Robert E. Howard published “The Shadow Kingdom” in Read More
Wraiths on Wings! A Gallery
“Wraiths on wings!” Recently I rewatched The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies and that line by Gollum stuck in my head. Both Read More
The Northern Thing: Artists of the Golden Age
Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien shared one thing for sure: a love of “the Northern thing”. The two giants of heroic fantasy Read More