The Blog That Time Forgot

But on they came, driven by the implacable will of Suleyman, and now in September, 1529, over the ruins of Hungary, the Turk swept on Europe...

"The Legend" by George Paul Chalmers (ca 1864), illustrating a scene from The Pirate (1821) by Walter Scott Scotland, befitting a...

A Sang o’ the Ilk Screivit by Rabert E. Howard Heich oan his throne sat Bran Mak Morn Whan the sun-god sank an the wast wis reid...

So the 22nd of January once again comes around. Currently I'm researching for a post on Ossian and the Celtic Revival in Scotland (watch...

Echaes frae a Stiddie Screivit by Rabert E. Howard  I leave tae pegral makars The tabor an the lute; I sing in d...

I am the symbol of Creation and Destruction I am the beginning and the end. With my tail in my mouth I am the Circle of Eternity. Wis...

Books dealing on Scottish history were easier for me to obtain than those dealing with Irish history, so in my childhood I knew infinite...

You know, I think Universal are doing this whole Universal Monsters Shared Universe Reboot backwards: we're thinking of the class...

110 years ago today, Robert E. Howard was born: as a happy coincidence, it comes only a few days before Burns Night. Like the royal Robert b...

One of the joys of getting into Robert E. Howard fandom is the vast world it opens up before you. Before I got into it, I relied mostly o...

This being Valentine Day, I suppose I should make the conventional request for you to go and join the army. That may sound a bit wobbly,...

I feel a bit like an apostate. I've not been keeping up with REH news and events for a while, though I still pop in at the Robert E. How...

Mr. Bates, New York City. Dear Mr. Bates: You may, or you may not have noticed my work in Weird Tales, Oriental Stories, Ghost Stor...

After seeing the fantastic work done by many folk translating REH into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish and many more, and havin...

Ever since Lost Soul Andy introduced me to MrBTongue's series "Tasteful, Understated Nerd Rage" to me, I've been ent...