Almuric by Robert E. Howard It is truly remarkable how much work pulp author Robert E. Howard managed to accomplish during his brief 30 years of life. Indeed, a look at his bibliography, on a certain Wiki site, should surely flabbergast any reader who knows the Texan writer only as the creator of Conan the […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber and Greg Hersom´s rating: 4 | Robert E. Howard | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
King Kull by Robert E. Howard & Lin Carter There’s a reason why I never lend out books anymore, even to my closest friends; namely, the fact that when I used to loan them out, I never got them back in the same good condition, or, even worse, never got them back at all. Cases […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Lin Carter, Robert E. Howard | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Three-Bladed Doom by Robert E. Howard Even those readers who have previously thrilled to the exploits of such Robert E. Howard characters as Conan the Barbarian, King Kull of Valusia, the Puritan fighter of evil Solomon Kane, the Pictish king Bran Mak Morn, the piratical Cormac Mac Art, and boxer Steve Costigan might still be […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Robert E. Howard | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Bloody Crown of Conan by Robert E. Howard Nobody can touch Robert E. Howard when he was at the top-of-his-game. The three stories in The Bloody Crown of Conan are not only some of his best, they are some of his best Conan stories and Conan was his greatest creation. Howard was the father […]
Read MoreGreg Hersom´s rating: 5 | Robert E. Howard | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard Dressed in black with the tall slouch-hat typical of Puritan fashion, and armed with sword, flint-locks, and, later, an ancient carved staff, Solomon Kane stalks the 16th century world from the remote reaches of Europe to the bloody decks of the high seas, and into […]
Read MoreGreg Hersom´s rating: 5 | Robert E. Howard | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard * If you’re not — or not looking to become — a reader of sword-and-sorcery or fantasy tales, then you can probably skip the rest of this review and move on… unless you might acquire a taste for stories of a philosophical barbarian-king, whose axe or sword […]
Read MoreRob Rhodes and Steven Harbin (GUEST)´s rating: 4 | Robert E. Howard | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Haunter of the Ring & Other Tales by Robert E. Howard A very long time ago, when I was still in high school, Texas-born Robert E. Howard was one of my favorite authors, and this reader could not get enough of him, whether it was via such legendary characters as Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Robert E. Howard | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 8 comments |
Conan the Barbarian: The Stories that Inspired the Movie by Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian is a Conan story collection recently published by Del Rey/Ballantine as a tie-in to the 2011 Conan movie. It has the same title as a story collection published in 1955, a movie novelization by L. Sprague de Camp in […]
Read MoreSteven Harbin (GUEST)´s rating: 4 | Robert E. Howard | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Thriller Viewers who tuned into the new Thriller program on NBC, on the night of September 13, 1960, a Tuesday, could have had little idea that the mildly suspenseful program that they saw that evening — one that concerned a male ad exec being stalked by a female admirer — would soon morph into the […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Charles Beaumont, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin Greenberg Though hardly a runaway success in its day, and a publication that faced financial hardships for much of its existence, the pulp magazine known as Weird Tales is today remembered by fans and collectors alike as one of the most influential […]
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Weird Tales: The Magazine that Never Dies edited by Marvin Kaye Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies anthology from 1988 takes a slightly different tack than its earlier sister volume, Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. Whereas the editors of that earlier collection chose to select one story from each year of the magazine’s […]
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Rivals of Weird Tales edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg From 1923 – ’54, over the course of 279 issues, the pulp publication known as Weird Tales helped to popularize macabre fantasy and outré horror fiction, ultimately becoming one of the most influential and anthologized magazines of the century, and […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Anthony Boucher, C.L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague De-Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Norvell W. Page, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror edited by John Betancourt & Robert Weinberg This is the seventh anthology that I have reviewed that has been drawn from the pages of Weird Tales, one of the most famous pulp magazines in publishing history. Each of the previous collections had employed its own modus operandi in presenting […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Brian Lumley, C.L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Russell, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Robert Sheckley, Tanith Lee, William Hope Hodgson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1 edited by Warren Lapine Fantasy Super Pack #1 , which is available for 99c in Kindle format, is an enormous collection of 34 stories presumably showcasing the taste of the editor of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, an online magazine. As I’m interested in submitting to the magazine, I […]
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Conan the Barbarian (the film) The latest Hollywood adaption of Robert E. Howard’s legendary hero seems to be taking an especially tough beating. Speaking as a life-long CONAN and Robert E. Howard fan, by Crom, I don’t hate. I saw the film on a Sunday afternoon – and yes, I got suckered into paying for […]
Read MoreGreg Hersom´s rating: 3 | Robert E. Howard | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | | 14 comments |
The Dark Man — (1978-1979) The Dark Man and The Dead Remember are omnibus editions of the Dark Man stories. Publisher: The Dead Remember; People of the Dark; Children of the Night; The Garden of Fear; The Thing on the Roof; The Hyena; Dig Me No Grave; The Dream Snake; Old Garfield’s Heart; The Voice of […]
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