Bronze Age Dragons: 1970s
Fire-breathing dragons! You won’t find any T. rexes or giant snakes here. These are Bronze Age Dragons, with wings and fiery breath. (well, mostly.) I Read More
Hugo Gernsback’s Creatures From Wonder Stories II
If you missed the last one… Last time I focused on five of the better realized creatures from Wonder Stories. This time I’ve got five Read More
The Dark Worlds Podcast: Oliver Brackenbury
M. D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas talk with Oliver Brackenbury about Sword & Sorcery, fundraising, New Edge Sword & Sorcery and other topics like Read More
Lost Cities of the Golden Age
In the last post I focused on the lost cities in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan novels. I have another one Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
You Guessed it! More Plant Monsters in Comics!
If you missed the last one… With this post we hit the three hundred and ninety third plant comic in my collected posts. Just shy Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 12: 1982-1983
If you missed the last one…. The end has finally come. Warren Publications lost Louise Jones, the top editor in 1980, to be replaced by Read More
The Lost Cities of Conan
In the last post, we looked at the lost cities in the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of Robert E. Howard’s commercial inspirations, Read More
Bronze Age Robots! 1970s
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age of Robots is all about franchises. Movies, TV, comic book and especially, TOYS! This is the Read More
The Terror Garden: The Orchid of Asia
The Terror Garden has many orchids in it. Stories like “The Orchid Terror” from 1911 are typical as it that classic “The Purple Terror” (1899) Read More