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sSensor Sweep: Sax Rohmer, Marvel Comics, LotR Radio
Monday , 27, May 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Fandom Pulse): Disney might have accidentally dropped some damning news for the mainstream comic industry in the form of a job listing. Comic shops have been struggling at all-time lows for sales heading into the second half of 2024, and now, it appears as if Marvel Comics may be on the chopping block. […]
Last year, I wrote a post on the Fedogan & Bremer collection Frost by Donald Wandrei. That book collected the first eight stories with the plan for a second volume. Fedogan & Bremer went on hiatus with the second volume in limbo. Enter Haffner Press. Haffner Press has a history of publishing massive collections of […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 25 May 2024
Saturday , 25, May 2024 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Battleborn (The Weapon #1) – Richard Fox On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier. The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and […]
Sensor Sweep: James Bond, Hobbit Comic Book, Conan Comic Book, Warhammer
Monday , 20, May 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentComic Books (Rip Jagger Dojo): As far as I can remember the Eclipse Comics adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit came out of left field. I don’t remember much buzz about it at the time, but it was a period when I was less connected to comics overall. After the burst of interest in fantasy […]
Robert Kenneth Jones’ The Shudder Pulps is possibly the first history of a pulp magazine genre. The book was first published as a hardback by Fax Collector’s Editions in 1975 (with cool Mike Kaluta cover). A trade paperback edition from New American Library followed in 1978. The weird menace pulps lasted about eight years from […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 18 May 2024
Saturday , 18, May 2024 Uncategorized 1 CommentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. A Bad Case of Dead – Jim Breyfogle Edward has caught a bad case of Dead! While hurrying to his clerking job in London, Edward is attacked by a strange creature in […]
Sensor Sweep: Genre Distinctions, Disney X-Men, Solomon Kane Movie
Monday , 13, May 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentConan (Sprague de Camp Fan): The Conan Companion, Hall Publications, is a 24-page booklet published in 1976. It consists of articles by Michael Resnick, David and Susannah Bates, John Meyer, L. Sprague de Camp, and Bill Crlikov and artwork by Gene Day, Richard L. Farley, Ken Raney, Bot Roda, and Wayne Warfield. Genre (Wasteland & […]
The most misinterpreted Robert E. Howard story is “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter.” Winter Elliott wrote in her essay “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Women” (Conan Meets the Academy): “Women in peril flee across the wastelands and marshes depicted on Howard’s pages; frequently like Atali of the story ‘The Frost-Giant’s Daughter,’ they’re pursued by men with […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 11 May 2024
Saturday , 11, May 2024 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Celestial Sea (The Combined Service #3) – Jo Boone Madness and ruin at the ragged edge of deep space. The Magnetar heads for the gu’ul world of Garoar, where the Combined Service ship Askja has […]
Sensor Sweep: The Witcher, Brak, Michael Moorcock, Free Comic Book Day
Monday , 6, May 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentConan (Sprague de Camp Fan): “Lethal Consignment” by Shaun Hamill is the newest Heroic Legends Conan e-book. Shaun Hamill lives in north Texas, so he is a neighbor of mine. Perhaps he’ll make it to Howard Days on June 7th in Cross Plains. At only $1.99 Mr. Hamill’s consignment writing of this Conan short story […]
The weird westerns continue. This week’s book is Nancy A. Collins’ Dead Man’s Hand. It is a trade paperback collection from Two Wolf Prress from 2004. Contents are a collection of five stories, novellas, and a short novel. Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. Nancy Collins was a member for a period of time in the […]
Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Atrocity Engine (Custodians of the Cosmos #1) – Tim Waggoner Creatures from dark dimensions infesting your home? Demonic beings trying to drive you insane? Alien gods attempting to destroy your universe? […]