Adventures in Fiction: H.P. Lovecraft
Our Adventures in Fiction series is meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Today we celebrate the birthday of HP Lovecraft, one of the most influential authors of the 20th Century. In honor of this day, we re-present the Adventures in...
Charles R. Saunders’ Nyumbani Tales
Charles R. Saunders’ Nyumbani Tales by Bill Ward In Nyumbani Tales (MV Media 2017), sword-and-sorcery great Charles Saunders collects 13 short stories spanning his early career, work that had previously appeared in a variety of publications, from small press ‘zines like Weirdbook and Black Lite, to mass market anthologies such as Beyond the Fields We Know and Hecate’s Cauldron. Fans of Saunders’ Imaro series...
A Preview of W.J. Lewis’s “Dakagna and the Blood Scourge”
Tales From the Magician’s Skull’s sword-swinging 10th issue is here! Now available for purchase in stores and online, the tenth issue of TFTMS marks a mighty milestone in the annals of modern sword-and-sorcery! From regular favorites to new talents, from worlds of adventure and horror and strange speculation, from art and design that harkens to the classic Weird Tales aesthetic while showcasing the best in contemporary...
A Look at C.J. Cherryh’s Gate of Ivrel
A Look at C.J. Cherryh’s The Gate of Ivrel by Fletcher Vredenburgh The first CJ Cherryh book I read was Merchanter’s Luck. I was stuck in the hospital with a badly broken arm and my dad bought it for me. I’d seen her stuff around, but never read any before. It’s an incredibly tense, hard science-fiction space opera and it made me a fan. Pretty soon, I was tracking down her books. Looking back, I’ve read over twenty of her books...
Classic Covers: Edgar Rice Burroughs
From the pulps of the 20s and 30s to the paperback racks of the 60s and 70s to the comics and films and ebooks of the digital age and beyond, the publishing phenomenon that is Edgar Rice Burroughs encompasses millions of books sold, popular reading tastes changed, and classic tropes established. From John Carter to Tarzan, from Mars to Venus to the Earth’s Core to the Land that Time Forgot — with occasional forays into the...
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