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sMagazines (Pulp Super-Fan): I recently obtained Pulp Adventures #44 from Bold Venture Press, dated Winter 2024. A delay from the prior issue, but it looks like they are working to get back on schedule. We get science fiction, detective, crime, and horror, along with reviews and non-fiction this time. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): Chapters […]
Sword & sorcery as a fictional genre had its origin in the weird fiction pulp magazines of the late 1920s into the 1930s. There was a forgotten variation in Planet Stories in the 1940s. Then it disappeared from the magazines for the most part in the 1950s. There was a renascence in the digest magazines […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 14 September 2024
Sunday , 15, September 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. Lance (Conscript #3) – Scott Bartlett Planet Nibiru wants them dead. All of them. Trapped by the destruction of their own satellites, the Marines on Nibiru suddenly find themselves without orbital or […]
Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords 50th Anniversary Collection
Saturday , 14, September 2024 Uncategorized Leave a commentThe Castalia House Blog is pleased to spotlight exciting new projects in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Cirsova Publishing is excited to announce that it will be publishing Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords saga in a collected edition for its 50th Anniversary. The Dream Lords represented Adrian Cole’s debut in his long […]
Tolkien (Geek Gab Fest): Orcs, in Tolkien’s works, are an inherently evil race of raiders, murderers, cannibals, and rapists. They are utterly evil, without any redeeming qualities except a low sort of loyalty to their masters. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): There are several things I regret in life. Mostly small things. Things like never […]
Robert E. Howard’s Prehistoric Beasts: Other Entries
Sunday , 8, September 2024 Robert E. Howard 2 CommentsWhenever a Robert E. Howard character was setting out into the unknown, you never knew when he would run into some creature of the past. Mammoth: Those magnificent great cold weather elephants of the Pleistocene. James Allison mentions them as Hunwulf encountered them in “The Garden of Fear.” “I gave them a wide berth, giants too […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 7 September 2024
Saturday , 7, September 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. Junkyard Mercenary (Junkyard Pirate #8) – Jaime McFarlane In a galaxy on the brink, old soldiers never fade away—they just get tougher! Vietnam vet Albert Jenkins, faces one of his most dangerous […]
Fantasy (DMR Books): The Ship of Ishtar was first serialized in Argosy All-Story in November 1924. It was immediately a huge hit with Argosy‘s readership. Not since the days of “The Moon Pool” had there been such a furor amongst the Argosy audience–and part of that previous buzz was due to Merritt writing his novella […]
Robert E. Howard’s Prehistoric Beasts: The “Red Nails” Dragon
Sunday , 1, September 2024 Pulp 1 CommentRobert E. Howard’s greatest use of a prehistoric beast was the “dragon” used in the first third of the novella “Red Nails.” First, Howard’s description: Through the thicket was thrust a head of nightmare and lunacy. Grinning jaws bared rows of dripping yellow tusks; above the yawning mouth wrinkled a saurian-like snout. Huge eyes, like […]