Link: Blue Pencils and Bloody Swords: Editors of S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for Read More
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Link: Bio of a Mythos Sorcerer
Many of the students of the arcane that inhabit Mythos tales could be called “sorcerers”. Men like John Carnaby in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More
The Abominations of Yondo
The triple-decker Fantasy novels of the 20th Century, most cast in the semblance of J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterworks, bear little fruit for me. When Read More
Web Pulp: Putting Weird Tales in Perspective
Weird Tales stands tall as the original source of the superstars of Fantasy in the decades following the World War I. Robert E. Howard and Read More
Link: Conan the Cimmerian: Sword & Sorcery Superstar
When many people hear the words “Sword & Sorcery”, they immediately think of Conan. He might be Robert E. Howard’s original, or the L. Sprague Read More
Horror Magazine Illustrations & Covers
The artwork from Weird Tales was often as engrossing and unusual as the fiction it illustrated. Names like Virgil Finlay, Boris Dolgov, Lee Brown Coye, Read More
The Dark Poets of Weird Tales
I would describe Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies (1988) as an anthology for people who hate Weird Tales. Despite his loving Read More
Link: Posthumous Collaborations: Dollars From the Grave
I was reading an old Tangent Online interview with Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton and I was struck by something. Here’s what they were talking Read More
Link: Of Fish Genes & Bloodlines
H. P. Lovecraft was skilled at borrowing what he wanted from those who came before him. It was a kind of literary game to him Read More