A classic pulp sword-and-sorcery hero who has been revived for new stories is Elak of Atlantis. He was created by Henry Kuttner (1915-58), who wrote many pulp...
Tag - Weird Tales
Recently Sinister Cinema‘s Armchair Fiction has added two more volumes to their new Masters of Horror series, bringing the total to six. Like the others...
It always amazes me when I find a new pulp author and wonder why I hadn’t learned of them soon. Here is another. Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-90) is a...
Kull the Conqueror. King Kull. Kull of Atlantis. Whatever you call him, Kull was Robert E. Howard‘s first sword-and-sorcery hero, years before Conan the...
Donald Keyhoe (1897-1988) is someone who is known for several things. For most of us, he is probably best known as a pulp writer of many aviation heroes and...
I have enjoyed Sinister Cinema‘s Armchair Fiction and their Lost World-Lost Race Classics series, and saw they recently added six more in their series...
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) is the last of the Weird Tales triumvirate that included H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. CAS is known as a poet, weird...
Conan. Solomon Kane. Kull the Conqueror. Bran Mak Morn. Red Sonya. Sailor Steve Costigan. These and many others are the creations of Robert E. Howard (1906...
An interesting non-fiction work I got recently that was published by Bowling Green State University’s Popular Press is Gary Hoppenstand‘s In Search...
I recently got pair of more academic works edited by Gary Hoppenstand that may be of interest. The first is a hardcover reference book, Critical Insights: Pulp...