Sword & Sorcery versus Sword & Planet
A swordsman, his arms bearing red wounds, limps across a battlefield covered in bodies. His helmet is gone; his shield is broken. The flag of Read More
A swordsman, his arms bearing red wounds, limps across a battlefield covered in bodies. His helmet is gone; his shield is broken. The flag of Read More
In a previous article I showed how “The Tomb of Sarah” was the inspiration for one of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories. Quinn wrote Read More
I came across Hannes Bok’s illustration for H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and this got me thinking, “Is this the very first interpretation Read More
I always applaud the brave. S. T. Joshi in his The Modern Weird Tale (2001) is brave. He has the critical kahunas to state that Read More
There are those Fantasy writers and critics that accuse Robert E. Howard’s Conan of lacking any depth because he just hacks his way out of Read More
Lovecraft’s circle shared mention of their separate creations in the pages of Weird Tales, name-dropping here and there a friend’s character or some other reference. Read More
Jack Mackenzie’s collection of Dark Fantasy stories is now available from Rage Machine Books. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G8HHWC7 From the book’s introduction: If you ever feel that you Read More
“The Tree-Men of M’Bwa” by Donald Wandrei is one of those wonderful Weird Tales gems that I love to happen upon. The story was published Read More
Howard purists may hate every word I am about to say. While I will always agree that Robert E. Howard’s stories were the best of Read More
In “The Supernatural Horror in Literature” H. P. Lovecraft selects three novels as the offspring of Bram Stoker’s Dracula: “…Dracula evoked many similar novels of Read More