The Blog That Time Forgot

So that's been quite a while since my official announcement, and there's been precious little information about what's going on....

As a follow-up to my musings on Hyborian Age Cartography , there's been a veritable avalanche of activity on the subject at the Robert E...

“Who are you to swear by Ymir?” she mocked. “What know you of the gods of ice and snow, you who have come up from the south to adventure ...

The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale su...

 Sometimes you just have to go with the classics.     “Asgard and Vanaheim,” Prospero scanned the map. “By Mitra, I had almost beli...

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subt...

When the world was young and men were weak, and the fiends of the night walked free, I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juic...

Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep. I speak the Word from the hid...

When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, The people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet; But now I am a great ki...

    Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn. Into a dim alley, one of a verit...

Red Fury's a lucky man! “Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the ye...

The more I reviewed the introduction's appraisal of Conan's literary origins in Howard's work, the more I felt...

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Quick forward: the subject of the Aquiromians and question of whether the Hyborian Kingdoms we...

Two nobles of Shamar wearing robes reclining on a couch, eating grapes, drinking wine, watching the gladiators in a coliseum, in a comic fro...

"My antipathy for Rome is one of those things I can't explain myself. Certainly it isn't based on any early reading, because ...

"When I dream of Rome, I am always pitted against her, hating her with a ferocity that in my younger days persisted in my waking ho...

A quickly-rendered composite utilizing the two maps included in Del Rey's Conan collections The subject of maps for the Encyclopaedia. ...

I've been wrestling with dates in regards to the Encyclopedia. "Three thousand years before the time of Conan," "nine hun...

Yes, I've been playing Skyrim .  No, it hasn't conquered my life, though it isn't for want of trying: I just don't really ...

I've decided I'm going to periodically share a few random musings in regards to the Encyclopedia, both as a form of soundboard, and ...