The Sin You Can Live With: Horns (2013)
The Sin You Can Live With: Horns (2013) With the best will in the world, Horns is a movie that I just don’t get. I don’t get it at all. Yet I’m not going to lash into it or tell you to avoid it like the plague because it may just be me! Now I know that regular readers would be astonished if that were the case, my taste being absolutely impeccable and all, but who knows? This might be one of those times. I can only say that I did...
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...
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