The Blog That Time Forgot

I wish I could've started the new year on a happier tone . Howard Andrew Jones was an author whose work exemplified everything this blog...

  I was just digesting the shocking news of Chadwick Boseman's death when I heard about Charles R. Saunders , Sword and Soul pioneer and...

Foreword The publication of the following narrative of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin has been authorized by the Executive Council of the Internat...

I hadn't had the chance to discuss this new collection of short stories which is just the sort of thing I love, but recent revelati...

Technically speaking, I shouldn't be reading this book, since it isn't out in the UK. However, I just couldn't wait, so I ord...

Back in University, I made this cover for one of the most important books in my early life. Sadly the ACD Estate never got in touch with...

Today marks C.L. Moore's 102nd birthday. Her contributions to the Sword-and-Sorcery genre have been acknowledged at Resources for Scienc...

“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...

Today is Fritz Leiber's Centenary*.  Despite not actually being blown away by his work,  I feel like I should honour it with a post on m...

OK, this is the last link post for this week, I'd try to have something more substantial tomorrow. Saturday night, October 29, 1977 a...

I came across this months ago, but I feel I should discuss it all the same. It's basically about what the blog author, tansyrr, looks...