Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed II
The last session seemed popular so here are more of the stories I enjoyed. When I look at the Fox story in this list is Read More
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Fantastic Jungle Adventures
East of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Read More
In Search of a Classic: The Mummy
The Mummy as a monster was created out of ignorance. The mystique of evil Egyptian sorceries was the vagaries of human curiosity. Hieroglyphics were not Read More
Conan Comics Parodies
Sword & Sorcery has not always been seen as the rightful prince to the Heroic Fantasy crown. During the Lancer boom of the 1960s, some Read More
The Evolved Man of the Early Pulps
Science Fiction fans laugh (along with everybody else) when they watch Pinky and the Brain. But SF fans laugh just a little louder. The story Read More
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder in Mesopotamia is as close as Agatha Christie ever came to writing an autobiographical mystery. Her unpublished novel Unfinished Portrait (1934) as Mary Westmacott, Read More
The Genuine Article: Detective Comics
Comics based on famous detective characters are not uncommon. Sherlock Holmes alone has dozens in many languages. But what is rarer, and the focus of Read More
Link: Borderland: A B-Movie in the Making
“Borderland” by Arthur J Burks is a typical pulp adventure and yet somehow more interesting than many of his other tales in Gangster Stories or Read More
Link: Stranded on a Fearsome Planet: Two Novels of Survival
There is something immediately appealing about a killer planet. Science fiction has used the idea on numerous occasions, but the idea remains simple and the Read More
The Pellucidarian Dinosaur & Other Forms of Transport
In the last segment on riding beasts we focused largely on Barsoom and Amtor, or Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars and Venus, and similar types of Read More