Showing posts with label Conan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conan. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague

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These dead are unquiet... I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it. Nonetheless it’s how I ...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Conan and the Living Plague

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I'm reading John C. Hocking's Conan and the Living Plague for Cimmerian September.  Nothing else to add at the moment except that i...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

Celtic Adventures: Of Conan, a chasm, and “People of the Dark”

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This cover makes me want to drink Guinness and fight. When I read I don’t go looking for symbols … but sometimes they just hit me in the fac...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Some recent acquisitions

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Some treasures acquired while out and about or through the post. The three other images below are postcard ads included w/Lee volume. About ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Sunday, August 18, 2024

Hither Came Conan; A Review

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Also a winner of The Valusian Award from the Robert E. Howard Foundation. Robert E. Howard Days was wonderful for many reasons , but among t...
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Savage Sword of Conan no. 1, Titan Comics: A review

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I haven’t bought a new comic book in 33 years, when I purchased the April 1991 Savage Sword of Conan as a high school senior. The venerable ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

50 years of Savage Sword of Conan, and beyond

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Ahh, no. 29, I love you. Love them all... Savage Sword of Conan debuted August 1974.  I was just one year old. Probably a little young to be...
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

The Shadow of Vengeance by Scott Oden, a review

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Some would say there is no good Conan pastiche*, that the only stories of the Cimmerian worth reading are the 21 originals by Robert E. Howa...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

1979 Ken Kelly heroic fantasy calendar, month-by-month

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Let's look inside, shall we? And return to an age undreamed of ....1979. Among my prized finds at 2023 Howard Days was this bad boy. A ...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

My Howard Days 2023 haul

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Somewhere under here is a bar... Many amusing escapades and scrapes unfolded during Howard Days 2023, not the least of which was my complete...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

There and back again from Massachusetts to Cross Plains: A recap of 2023 Robert E. Howard Days

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Ken Lizzi, me, and Deuce, on sacred ground. That Saturday morning long ago remains fresh in my mind. The day I stumbled across a hoard of Sa...
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