Monsters of the Hyborian Age 14: Devil of the Outer Darkness
If you missed the last one… Conan fought several flying monsters in his career, though we have only looked at the Winged Ape previously here. Read More
If you missed the last one… Conan fought several flying monsters in his career, though we have only looked at the Winged Ape previously here. Read More
If you missed the last one… Pastiche Pals We have now moved away from the creatures originally created by Howard in the 1930s to those Read More
Jandar of Callisto Lin Carter’s “Creating a Fantasy Character” appeared in Savage Tales #7 (November 1974). Carter wrote a number of non-fiction pieces for Marvel Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
Sword & Sorcery can show up in some odd places. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when I find heroic fantasy in the pages of Read More
Yesterday was Weird Tales Day. The one hundredth anniversary of the first issue of Weird Tales hitting the newsstands. The first Pulp magazine dedicated to Read More
Last year I wrote about “Snake Gods and Were-Serpents” with stories like Frank Belknap Long’s “The Were-Snake” and A. Merritt’s “The Snake Mother”. Turns out Read More
Druids in the Pulps are almost always bad guys. The mysterious nature of the druidic magic, like the Egyptian hieroglyphs, makes it a natural for Read More
Atlantis flourished during The Pulp Years, 1923-1954. In L. Sprague de Camp’s Lost Continents (1954) he discusses the romantic novels of the 1880-90s, then follows Read More
If you missed Plant Monsters of Amazing Stories…. For our last post on the Plant Monsters of the 1930s, we offer a potpourri of various Read More