Howard Andrew Jones Interviewed by Rogues in the House Podcast
Is that a murderous pre-human simian all dressed up in a fancy scarlet cloak, or are you just glad for another Rogues in the House podcast? The Skull is pleased to announce that one of his deadliest minions, the ink-fingered sword-flasher Howard Andrew Jones, sword-and-sorcery author and Editor-in-Chief of Tales From the Magician’s Skull, made a guest appearance for the latest freewheeling discussion among the rogues. You are...
Now Available for Pre-Order: Tales From The Magician’s Skull #6 – Featuring Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser!
It is time to return to Lankhmar in the pages of Tales From The Magician’s Skull #6! Issue #6 of Tales From The Magician’s Skull is now available for pre-order! This exciting issue is currently in layout and scheduled to ship in June. It contains an amazing array of sword-and-sorcery fiction that will thrill the reader, and begins our new series of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories! As we previously announced, we reached...
465 Submissions Later…
465 Submissions Later… The Skull would like to honor the interns who have been laboriously, er, gloriously toiling away in the submissions cave. The final tally is in: 465 manuscripts were submitted in our recent open call! Soon we will have a final accounting of the acceptances and rejections. Until then, we give special recognition to interns #56 and #44, who have demonstrated an outstanding ability to discern sword and sorcery...
Last Day for Sword & Sorcery Fiction Open Call!
Tomorrow is the date of legend! The time foretold by the sages and prophets set forth upon the world by the Skull himself! April 1st is the final day for the Skull to receive your fictional missives! The Skull has a limit to the time his magazine, Tales From the Magician’s Skull, would be receptive to submissions. The end date of April 1st is tomorrow! Fates have ordained that the cosmic window will close! If you wish your work...
Only a Few Days Remain for the Skull’s Open Call!
As the April 1st deadline fast approaches, the Skull prepares to bar and lock the gates! Know, O mortals, the Skull hath decreed the irrevocable and fixed dates in which his peerless magazine Tales From the Magician’s Skull would be receptive to submissions. The end date of April 1st is only days away! The alignment of the stars is fast-shifting, and the submissions portal will close this week! If you wish your work to be...
First-Round Submissions Accepted By The Skull!
As you all know, the Skull recently started accepting submissions to his peerless magazine. He has asked that our interns post this update to the interwebs, alerting all his fans as to the results so far. Behold, Mortal Dogs! Here are the titles of a handful of treasures my minions have pulled from the submissions pile. Find here the names of their worthy authors, and tantalizing excerpts from their prose! There are more tales...
Final Month for The Skull’s Open Call!
Final Month for The Skull’s Open Call! Listen Well, Mortal Dogs! The greatest sword-and-sorcery magazine in the history of the world is Tales From The Magician’s Skull, and it is now accepting submissions! We’ve already received some fantastic submissions, but there is still time to get your story thrown into the arena. Less than a month remains, however, so don’t think this is an eternal chance—the only thing that is...
A Video Chat and Look Behind the Scenes with Skull & Friends
A Video Chat and Look Behind the Scenes with Skull & Friends To you undeserving mortals I have granted a rare glimpse behind the veil of secrecy at my most peerless of publications, Tales From the Magician’s Skull. The lowliest of my minions, the larvae called ‘interns,’ were tasked with this honor, but recently each met their own destruction in most hideous and foolish a fashion. And so the task was entrusted to...
The Skull is on Facebook!
Mortals, your foolishness knows no bounds. You call to one another across the ether, mind touching mind instantaneously across the vast expanse of the real, and how do you use this power? Is it to elucidate the eldritch lore of the serpent-people, or to examine the thrice-cursed Peninsula of the Necromantic Nomarchs? Where are the whispered rumors of the coming Juggernaut, the ravings of the ensorcelled scribe, or the sigils and signs...
Sword-and-Planet Love-Letter: Gardner Fox’s Warrior of Llarn
Sword-and-Planet Love-Letter: Gardner Fox’s Warrior of Llarn by Brian Murphy Sword-and-planet (S&P) is an odd, anachronistic corner of speculative fiction, occupying a colorful and wild interstellar space somewhere between the charted lands of fantasy and science fiction. Fighting-men from earth travel via astral projection to planets where hovercraft soar, shining cities in oxygenated domes rise above dusty plains, and aliens...
Two Months Remaining for The Skull’s Open Call!
Two Months Remaining for The Skull’s Open Call! Listen Well, Mortal Dogs! The greatest sword-and-sorcery magazine in the history of the world is Tales From The Magician’s Skull, and it is now accepting submissions! We’ve already received some fantastic submissions, but there is still time to get your story thrown into the arena. Only two months remain, however, so don’t think this is an eternal chance—the only thing that...
Tales From The Magician’s Skull Is Now Accepting Submissions!
Tales From The Magician’s Skull Is Now Accepting Submissions! Listen Well, Mortal Dogs! The greatest sword-and-sorcery magazine in the history of the world is Tales From The Magician’s Skull, and it is now accepting submissions! I am the immortal Skull, champion and protector of all things sword-and-sorcery, and if you wish to submit a tale to my magazine, you must pay heed! Those who obey these dictates shall find their creations...
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