Swords of Fire

September 19, 2019 mdjackson 0

by David A. Hardy, C. J. Burch, Jack Mackenzie & G. W. Thomas In the tradition of Lin Carter’s FLASHING SWORDS anthologies of the 1970s, G. W. Thomas has assembled four novellas of Heroic Fantasy, longer tales of swords and sorcery. Featuring David A. Hardy’s “Temple of the Rakshasas”, set in ancient times, it follows Read More

Game of Emmys: The 2018 Emmy Awards

September 17, 2018 Jack Mackenzie 0

UPDATE: Congratulations to Peter Dinklage for his win for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, to Black Mirror: USS Callister for winning best TV Movie, to Thandie Newton for Best Actress in a Limited Series for Westworld and, of course, a big congratulations to Game of Thrones for winning the Read More

Heralded by Blood and Other Tales

August 7, 2018 mdjackson 0

Jack Mackenzie’s collection of Dark Fantasy stories is now available from Rage Machine Books. From the book’s introduction: If you ever feel that you are doing well as a writer, I would recommend re-reading all of your old short stories. That will put a pin in any inflated sense of Read More

The Curse of the Monolith

July 14, 2018 GW Thomas 0

Howard purists may hate every word I am about to say. While I will always agree that Robert E. Howard’s stories were the best of the Conan canon (he wrote some potboilers too), I do have some favs amongst the Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp pastiches. One such Read More

Cormac Mac Art: The Comics

July 8, 2018 GW Thomas 0

The Savage Sword of Conan served up a monthly dose of Conan the Cimmerian along with secondary tales of Robert E. Howard’s other characters such as Solomon Kane, King Kull and Bran Mak Morn, plus the Howard/Roy Thomas amalgam Red Sonja. In the 235 issues, from August 1974 to July Read More

Harlan Ellison dies at age 84

June 29, 2018 mdjackson 0

Whether you loved him or hated him, no one can deny that he was a giant of literature, SF, Fantasy or otherwise. Iconic and controversial, Ellison’s writing career crossed multiple genres, from horror to SF to speculative fiction, across a career studded with awards from the Nebulas to the Hugos and Read More

Dark Worlds Issue #4 is here!

April 9, 2018 mdjackson 0

The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed hibernating. We’re very much awake now for Spring of 2018, and we managed to give the old Quarterly a bit of a new look! Plus Read More

Another Letter From Karl Edward Wagner

January 28, 2018 GW Thomas 2

This letter was written seven years later. The reason for it was to check on the copyright issues that might come from my selling an RPG article based on Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John stories. The article never sold but I did get a great glimpse into Karl and Francis Read More

Sword & Sorcery: Fossil or Fuel?

January 27, 2018 GW Thomas 0

In 2006 I wrote a story called “Black God’s Burden” which eventually appeared in Flashing Swords #11 (November 2008). The editorial comments on the piece got me thinking about Sword & Sorcery plots for some of the committee members (a pox on editing by committee!) felt the story was too Read More

Why Write Horror?

January 26, 2018 GW Thomas 0

Why write horror? Why not the socially more accepted Science Fiction or Fantasy, in which the reader experiences wonder and the heights of imagination? Why not the even safer Mystery or Western? Literary forms so conventionalized you don’t have to worry about stepping on toes. Go to even greater lengths Read More

The Long, Twisted History of the World’s Most Unusual Wizard…The Rainbow Man

January 20, 2018 GW Thomas 0

It usually starts with the question, “Did you get the name from the Pogues’ song?” The answer is yes. The Rainbow Man is a collection of forty-three Fantasy flash fiction pieces revolving around the titular character. But wait, let’s start at the beginning. It started around 1990. I was hitting Read More

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