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
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Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed IV
With favorites you are always going to find others who have read those stories, and to those people I will apologize, but it surprises me Read More
Wrath of the Gods by Willie Patterson
Michael Moorcock has mistakenly been attributed with writing the comic “Wrath of the Gods”, but Moorcock’s job at Boys’ World was to write text features Read More
An Interview With Jason M Waltz
Jason M Waltz is the editor at Rogue Blades Entertainment, a company that focuses on action-driven Fantasy. His latest anthology is Death’s Sting—Where Art Thou? Read More
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
The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
Dennis More and the Tales of a Wandering Bard
In October 1975 an unknown writer named Dennis More appeared in Ted White’s Fantastic, his first tale garnering the cover by Marcus Boaz. The story Read More