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
The Matter of Britain & Fantasy
I am currently reading Mike Ashley’s excellent A Brief History King Arthur (aka The Mammoth Book of King Arthur, 2005). Ashley does a great job Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed VIII
Sword & Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed VIII…hm. I’ve been reviewing Sword & Sorcery tales for a while now. And I am always surprised 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
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
Sword and Sorcery Stories You May Have Missed V
Sword & Sorcery stories by women are under-represented on this blog. That was never my intent. The field was dominated by men from 1920s to 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