A Preview of James Enge’s “Three Festivals”
A Preview of James Enge’s “Three Festivals” Tales From the Magician’s Skull Issue 9 is now available for purchase in stores and online, and as always we’ve got a great sampler platter spread out for your delectation! Morlock Ambrosius has long stalked the pages of the Magician’s Skull — but when the abduction of his Phoenix friend leads him to Lopodysia on the eve of its once-a-century inversion, he finds...
Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric
Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric by Bill Ward Few characters in fantasy are as iconic as Conan the Cimmerian: black-haired barbarian warrior with the deadly grace of a panther and the impressive physique of a prize fighter, a wanderer, a reaver, and a king by his own hand. Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone perhaps rivals Conan in terms of iconic status (if not exactly in market saturation), perhaps in part due to his...
Interviews With the Skull
Few indeed are the mortals brave enough to enter the Skull’s presence — and braver still are those who sit down for an interview with the Cranky Cranium! Proof of such courage has recently been added to the Goodman Games YouTube channel, and we present those nine recent interviews with our Boney Bonaparte of sword-and-sorcery in the following playlist! From the writers who pen Tales From the Magician’s Skull’s...
A Black Wind Blowing: Robert E. Howard and The Weird Menace Horror Pulps
A Black Wind Blowing: Robert E. Howard and The Weird Menace Horror Pulps by Ryan Harvey Robert E. Howard was a pulp professional, always searching for new markets to sell his fiction. Unlike his friends in the Weird Tales bullpen, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, both of whom kept to a narrow fictional style and a handful of magazines, Howard experimented to target different markets. Sometimes the experiments were a bust. He...
Bran Mak Morn, The Doomed King
Bran Mak Morn, The Doomed King by Bill Ward Most new readers approach the work of Robert E. Howard from the perspective of his most famous creation, Conan. As is only natural, they tend to look at Howard’s other heroes in terms of their relation to the Cimmerian, and look for those elements that later make their way into the much more famous stories of the Hyborian age. Kull is perhaps the most well known ancestor of Conan for, after...
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