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Fantasy subgenres: Helpful or needlessly divisive?
Sword and sorcery? Epic fantasy? Sword and planet? Sword and sandal? Does anyone really care about these delineations? Do they serve any purpose? A couple of the blogs I frequent, Charles Gramlich’s...
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Frankenstein and R. J. Myers’ Domination Fantasies
A couple weeks ago I reviewed R. J. Myers’ The Cross of Frankenstein. It was the respected political commentator’s first foray into fiction. He followed it with a sequel, 1976’s The Slave of...
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Charles Gramlich’s new Sword-and-Sorcery collection Bitter Steel is published
I announced REHupan Charles Allen Gramlich‘s upcoming Heroic Fantasy/Sword-and-Sorcery collection Bitter Steel last January here on The Cimmerian. It just came out this week and is now available...
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Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard: A review
The echoes of Robert E. Howard’s life can be found in the places where he best lived it–in his copious amount of fiction and verse. And while that is a good place to start forming a complete picture of...
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The Cimmerian Blog, Year Four: August 2008 – August 2009
Three blockbuster years, and The Cimmerian Blog was gaining its own momentum as a scholarly entity apart from the esteemed journal which spawned it: with the TC journal entering its final volume and...
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Blogging The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer, Part Eight –...
“Andaman—Second!” was the seventh installment of Sax Rohmer’s serial, Fu-Manchu first published in THE STORY-TELLER in April 1913. The story would later comprise Chapters 18-20 of the novel, The...
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Rosemary Sutcliff: An Unforgettable Writer
Having sent in postings on Uther and some other Arthurian characters — and written stories based on the King Arthur mythos myself — I’d like to pay tribute to the sources that did most to make me an...
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A new Fu Manchu novel ahead: The Destiny of Fu Manchu
Since he seems to be too humble to mention it himself here, I will do it for him; our own Cimmerian blogger William Patrick Maynard has announced that he has fully-executed agreement from the Sax...
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A Means to Freedom and the Kane Hardcovers: Get ‘Em While You Can
TC editors advertising (I refuse to use the term “pimping”) their personal literary items for sale has a long history here on the blog. Check out this post by Leo Grin (and several subsequent). Times...
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Don Herron nominated for the 2010 Munsey Award
Last year, Bill Thom won the first Munsey Award, given “to a deserving person who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community, be it through disseminating knowledge about...
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