Edmond Hamilton’s The Lake of Life
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures, a collection of world-spanning Horror-Adventure tales coming out in early 2025. Like Edmond Hamilton, I enjoy Read More
Tag: Robert E. Howard
James Allison in “The Tower of Time”
Reading Harvey K. Schreiber’s “Death From the Sea” got me reading other old issues of Fantastic where I found this story. “The Tower of Time” Read More
Harvey K. Schreiber’s The Eagle and the Sword
Ted White, when he was the editor of Fantastic (April 1969-January 1979), did big things with very little money. This meant he grabbed Sword & Read More
The Solomon Kane Adventures of Don Glut
If you missed the last one… Solomon Kane, unlike Conan, Kull or Red Sonja, never had a long-running Marvel series that required different writers to Read More
Ten More Doc Savage Novels For Halloween
If you missed the last ten… Jack Mackenzie has finished his third Wild Inc. novel, Madam Murder. Here’s the cover for the book that will Read More
Link: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
If you missed the last one… Let’s be fair right from the start and admit: Pulp fiction, all Pulp fiction hates snakes. The old Read More
The Comics of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu is one of the great villains of Pulp fiction. Sax Rohmer created the character in Collier’s Magazine, Feb 15, 1913 with “The Zayat Read More
Cavemen (No Dinosaurs!)
In past posts I was largely interested in Cavemen & Dinosaurs (my phrase for the fantastic prehistoric, as best represented by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar Read More
Forgotten Comics: Captain Fear
If you missed the last one… In previous posts in the “Forgotten Comics” mode we looked at mostly fantastic themed comics: Sword & Sorcery, Space Read More
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More