A Look at A Book of Blades
Feb24

A Look at A Book of Blades

A Look at A Book of Blades from Rogues in the House Podcast by Bill Ward The folks behind the Rogues in the House Sword & Sorcery Podcast have applied their old school sensibilities to create an anthology of contemporary sword-and-sorcery from today’s modern practitioners. Edited by Matthew John, A Book of Blades delivers fifteen tales from an array of authors that fans keeping up with the genre – and especially readers of...

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Archiving the King’s Blade Champion: An Interview with John C. Hocking
Feb04

Archiving the King’s Blade Champion: An Interview with John C. Hocking

Archiving the King’s Blade Champion: An interview with John C. Hocking by Seth Lindberg John C. Hocking is a nigh-obsessed reader and writer of lurid pulp fiction, the author of Conan and the Emerald Lotus, “Black Starlight” serial, and their time-lost companion, Conan and the Living Plague, as well as an obedient thrall of Tales From the Magician’s Skull. Recently Black Gate reviewed John C. Hocking’s Conan Pastiche; then...

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A Preview of John C. Hocking’s “The Gift of a Poison Necklace”
Feb01

A Preview of John C. Hocking’s “The Gift of a Poison Necklace”

A preview of John C. Hocking’s “The Gift of a Poison Necklace” Benhus returns once again to the pages of Tales From the Magician’s Skull to confront the mystery of a necklace that kills. When his patron, the Lady Thale, survives both an assassination attempt and the follow-up robbery to recover the deadly jewelry sent by her enemy, Benhus must investigate a twisty trail of murder and intrigue in “The Gift of a Poison...

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