Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XIII
If you missed the last one… “The Seal of Zaon Sathla” by Lin Carter was first published in Carter’s anthology, The Magic of Atlantis (1970). Read More
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Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XII
The Guardian of the Vault “The Guardian of the Vault” by Paul Spencer (Years’ Best Fantasy 2, 1976) is a story chosen by Lin Carter Read More
More Robert E. Howard Pastiches
Conan the Cimmerian was the first Robert E. Howard character to be written about by others. This began when L.Sprague de Camp converted non-Conan tales Read More
The Adventures of Kardios
The adventures of Kardios, the last inhabitant of Atlantis, are a late Sword & Sorcery series. I say late because as editor, Andrew J Offutt Read More
Andrew J. Offutt’s Conan Trilogy 1: Conan and the Sorcerer
No Stranger to Howard Andrew J. Offutt was no stranger to Robert E. Howard’s work in 1978 when he began his trilogy of Conan novels. Read More
Zebra Sword & Sorcery of the 1970s and 1980s
Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corporation) began in 1974 but after a year it became a source for good quality Sword & Sorcery and historical adventure Read More
Ten Reasons Why Sword & Sorcery…
Here are ten reasons to read or write Sword & Sorcery? Why bother? Isn’t heroic fantasy just an over-worked Pulp convention that Robert E. Howard Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 6 (1970-2016)
If you missed Part 5… The 1970s saw Wellman finishing his Sherlock Holmes Versus the War of the Worlds series with his son, Wade, as 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
Historical Sword & Sorcery
Robert E. Howard muddied the waters when he created Solomon Kane, his first historical Sword & Sorcery series. By definition, heroic fantasy is set in Read More