The Chronicles of Conan Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast And Other Stories
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast And Other Stories This final piece is an overview rather than a review and therefore contains spoilers galore. The Moon-Eaters of Darfur (issue #108 of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian) opens on a miserable, rain driven and stormy landscape as the Cimmerian heads north of the Kushite capital of Meroê, leaving behind a city in the throes of full-blown upheaval. With him is the...
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 13 Heading North: Whispering Shadows And Other Stories Part 2
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 13 Heading North: Whispering Shadows And Other Stories Part 2 These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore Robert E. Howard’s short story The Vale of Lost Women didn’t appear in print until thirty-one years after his death, at which point it was quickly accepted into the official canon of Conan the Cimmerian. Despite that, it probably remains at worst,...
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 Two These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore. In July and November of 1932 respectively, Weird Tales published what would be the last outings in his lifetime for two of Robert E. Howard’s most famous characters: Solomon Kane and Bran Mak Morn. However, beginning with December, 1932 and...
The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 13 – Whispering Shadows And Other Stories – Part 1
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 13 Whispering Shadows And Other Stories Part 1 These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore. It’s just as well that anyone who shelled out money for a thirteenth volume of The Chronicles of Conan must by this time have been a hardcore fan; because if they had simply taken a chance on the book, then when they read this first turkey of a story they would...
The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 12 – The Beast King of Abombi : Part 2
Death of a Queen: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 12 The Beast King of Abombi And Other Stories Part 2 These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore. The wild sea is beating Against the grey sands; The woman, the sea-woman, Stretches her hands. Her eyes they are mystic And cold as the sea, With slender white fingers She beckons to me – There are woods in the sea Though the leaves...
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...
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