Serpents of the Air
Technology can date a story faster than Captain Kirk can hook up with a Venusian barmaid. One day the story is plausible, the next… A Read More
The Jungle Books – The Great Illustrators
WALT Disney never did Rudyard Kipling any favors. As children grow up these days they are inundated with Disney Plus and any hope that they Read More
Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed
After you’ve read the Howard Conans a hundred times, and the Michael Moorcocks are wearing thin, you might start to think Sword & Sorcery has Read More
An Interview with Michael May
Michael May is a fiction author, blogger, and podcaster. He’s the writer of Kill All Monsters, a graphic novel co-created with artist Jason Copland and Read More
Yuki-Onna, The Woman of the Snows
With the winter snows finally arriving, it seems natural to turn to Horror stories that concern the cold. I’ve already written about the traditional Canadian Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Windigo
One of the things you do as you get older is peek backwards at the things you held dear when you were a kid. Sometimes Read More
Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Eternal Lion
Frank Frazetta was the perfect artist to capture the danger and majesty of Burroughs’ lion creatures. An author can become identified with certain motifs. This Read More
De Camp & Carter: The Early Conan Pastiches
In 1966, Lancer Books began publishing their purple-edged paperbacks with Conan the Adventurer. This first volume contained only Robert E. Howard originals and one re-write Read More
The Plant Monsters of Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton was one of the great originators of Science Fiction. What he did not create himself, he used in new ways. He gave us Read More