Kane Meets Elric: Karl Edward Wagner’s “The Gothic Touch”
Dec16

Kane Meets Elric: Karl Edward Wagner’s “The Gothic Touch”

Kane Meets Elric: Karl Edward Wagner’s “The Gothic Touch” by Fletcher Vredenburgh King Kong vs Godzilla, Green Gargantua vs Brown Gargantua, Superman vs Batman: these are the sort of epic contests I envisaged when I realized Karl Edward Wagner had penned a story bringing his thoroughly detestable and awesome Kane together with Michael Moorcock’s more effete cursed albino, Elric of Melniboné. I mean, these are two of...

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The Mad Dream Dies: Karl Edward Wagner’s Bloodstone
Dec17

The Mad Dream Dies: Karl Edward Wagner’s Bloodstone

The Mad Dream Dies: Karl Edward Wagner’s Bloodstone by Bill Ward Aliens, lost civilizations, superscience vs. sorcery, perilous expeditions, a warrior maid, sentient crystalline entities, virgin sacrificing witches, bandits, ambushes, teleportation, a magic ring, cosmic visions, possession, a conjured tsunami, desperate battles, a jungle-shrouded city, cross and double-cross, devolved frogmen, a field tracheotomy, wall-leveling...

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