The Innsmouth Cycle – The Taint of the Deep Ones
The Innsmouth Cycle The Taint of the Deep Ones Selected and Edited by Robert M. Price An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 6 The first thing I have to do here is to give a truly geekish fanboy rave to the introduction by Robert M. Price, who also selects the tales and poetry here. Yes, that’s what I said: the introduction. I was two pages into this near-eight pages of really tiny type when I stopped, shook...
The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 11 – The Dance of the Skull And Other Stories
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 11 The Dance of the Skull And Other Stories These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore. With writer Roy Thomas’s regular collaborator –the artist John Buscema — otherwise engaged, cult-favourite Howard (American Flagg!, Black Kiss) Chaykin had stepped into those very large boots for a few months. As I mentioned in the review for...
Wings in the Night The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 4
Wings in the Night The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 4 Edited by Paul Herman Part One The first seventy pages of this volume of Wildside Press’s superb collections almost feel like a cleaning of the slate before beginning the chronicling of Robert E. Howard’s most famous creation – Conan of Cimmeria. Of course, this is only because I’m reading them from a vantage point and perspective of eighty-three years after the two...
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons And Other Stories No complaints about the title of this volume: exciting, evocative, beautifully pulpish and just rolls off the tongue. At the end of our last outing, we saw our favourite wandering Cimmerian settle down for a life of piracy aboard the Tigress as it sailed off the shores of the Black Coast, with Bêlit at his side — the beautiful and...
People of the Dark The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3
People of the Dark The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3 Edited by Paul Herman Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale There’s no other way to put it: the third volume of Robert E. Howard’s collected weird fiction starts with an explosive bloody cracker. Kings of the Night (Weird Tales, November 1930) is as close to pure Howard as any enthusiast could ask for, as well as being a major leap forward for the young writer on...
The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 7 : The Dweller in the Pool
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 7 The Dweller in the Pool And Other Stories By 1974 it was pretty obvious to the Marvel Corporation that with Conan the Barbarian they had a tiger by the tail and an enormous hit on their hands. As a result, they were keen to tell some of the Cimmerian’s later-life adventures. Indeed, they had already been tentatively doing so with the first five issues of the black & white magazine Savage...
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