Top Ten Favorite Swords in Heroic Fantasy
The enchanted sword has been a part of heroic fantasy since the beginning. Beowulf slays Grendel’s mother with an elder blade he conveniently finds in Read More
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High Versus Low Fantasy or You Can’t Get There From Here!
High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy has always been a bit of gray area for me. I can remember submitting to Bardic Runes back in the Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Chris Achilleos (1947-2021)
Born in Cyprus, but based in England, painter and designer, Chris Achilleos has influenced so many others through magazine covers and films. His controversial covers Read More
The Arthur W. Saha Year’s Best Fantasy
Arthur W. Saha (1923-1999) was editor for DAW’s Year’s Best Fantasy #7-14 (1981-1988). The previous editor had been Lin Carter, whose selections leaned towards Sword 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
Fantasy Tales: A Haven For Sword & Sorcery
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More