The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 5 – The Shadow in the Tomb And Other Stories
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 5 The Shadow in the Tomb And Other Stories Over a span of 26 issues of Conan the Barbarian and three of the black & white magazine Savage Tales, the team of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith had (with a little help from Gil Kane and John Buscema) taken a character who might in lesser hands have remained pretty much the by-blow of a typical Marvel hero and created something rather special in...
Lovecraft’s Legacy
Lovecraft’s Legacy Edited by Robert E. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 3 Some time back, in an interview with the Innsmouth Free Press, the great Lovecraftian scholar (I would say the greatest of Lovecraftian scholars), S. T. Joshi said: “It is not merely that Lovecraft’s tales form a roughly coherent single entity—a kind of loose novel in which each story comprises a...
The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 4 – The Song of Red Sonja And Other Stories
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 4 The Song of Red Sonja And Other Stories At the end of my review of the third volume in Dark Horse’s gorgeous reprintings of the ’seventies Marvel Conan tales, I mentioned that at that point deadlines were becoming rather a problem. It appears that artist Barry Windsor-Smith had turned somewhat fanatical in adding ever-more detail to his panels. As a result, issue #22 was a reprint of the debut...
The Disciples of Cthulhu Second Revised Edition
The Disciples of Cthulhu Second Revised Edition Memory is a funny thing, isn’t it? If pushed I would have said that I discovered Lovecraft through one of the anthologies that I recall appearing in the ’seventies. Yet I’ve just noticed that Edward P. Berglund, the editor of The Disciples of Cthulhu described his first edition—published by DAW Books in 1976– as ‘the first professional, all-original, Cthulhu Mythos anthology.’...
An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies Pt. 1
An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies O.K. This is going to be the first in a series of reviews covering the many, many Lovecraftian anthologies on the market. It would be completely redundant of me to regurgitate the well-known Facts in the Case M. Lovecraft (1890-1937). Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s massive impact on 20th century imaginative fiction is at this point indisputable and shows every sign of...
‘That is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie…’ The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
‘That is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie…’ The Call of Cthulhu (2005) In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. —Necronomicon. I should really have had a review of this masterpiece from the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society posted months ago. Months and months ago. In fact this 47-minute, priceless diamond of a film should have been...
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