Search Results for: The Derleth Mythos
Fiction (Rough Edges): Years ago, I read several novels in the long-running BattleTech science fiction series, tales about a galaxy-spanning conflict between rival clans, fought mostly by giant robots piloted by humans who controlled them from a cockpit within the robot’s body. Kind of like giant tanks that could run around and punch each other […]
Sensor Sweep: John Carter Miniatures, The Metal Monster, Carcosacon, Call of the Wild Art, Robot Man
Monday , 15, April 2019 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentRPG (Modiphius): The John Carter Swords of Mars miniatures line is made up of 32mm scale high quality multi-part resin miniatures which come complete with resin scenic bases. The Swords of Mars campaign book includes a set of rules to play out battles involving squads and heroes, fighting across moving airships, desolate ruins or the […]
The Cimmerian was a one of the best Robert E. Howard small press magazines ever produced. Editor/publisher Leo Grin had the idea of a magazine that contained well edited, entertaining non-fiction articles, a few poems, and a letter section. Art, all too often bad art would overwhelm many a small press magazine. The Cimmerian had […]
August Derleth was a member of the Lovecraft circle from the late 1920s until Lovecraft’s death. He was also one of the first to make use of the Cthulhu Mythos (with Lovecraft’s blessing). He remains controversial among Lovecraftians for his handling of Lovecraft’s legacy and especially for his Mythos fiction. A review of Derleth’s Mythos […]
There have been a number of Weird Tales anthologies but interestingly, no best of Weird Tales. If you were to put together a Best of Weird Tales, what stories would you include? Here is my list: The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft Beyond the Black River Robert E. Howard The Tale […]
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 1
Sunday , 10, April 2016 Fiction, Short Fiction, Uncategorized 4 CommentsSo, you have read your Del Rey trade paperbacks of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. You might even have picked up the Penguin collection of Clark Ashton Smith stories. You keep hearing about a magazine called Weird Tales where Lovecraft and Howard’s stories first appeared. There is some curiosity if there were any […]
Sensor Sweep: Ubisoft, James Bond, Matt Helm, Elfquest
Monday , 30, September 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentOld Radio (Purple Girasol): Presenting, for your listening pleasure, “Murder by a Corpse“. A Halloween episode a month early. New (With Both Hands): There are now a number of contemporary short fiction magazines publishing sci fi, fantasy, and weird tales, and Cirsova may be pre-eminent among them. While sales of these little magazines are far […]
Cold Print is not an Arkham House book but two thirds of the contents were originally published by Arkham House. Ramsey Campbell was another of August Derleth’s discoveries. Cold Print is a collection of Campbell’s “Cthulhu Mythos” stories from 1962 to 1985. Cold Print was first a Scream Press hardback from 1985. Tor reprinted it […]
Sensor Sweep: Lovecraft, Elric, Hugos, Forgotten Realms
Monday , 4, March 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentHorror (RT Book Reviews): It’s always hard to believe that such prolific and influential writers died in relative obscurity during their time. The works of authors like Poe, Hemingway, and the focus of this list, HP Lovecraft all put out numerous works during their time on earth just to die penniless and unknown, with their […]
Sensor Sweep: King Kong, Cyberpunk 2077, Edmond Hamilton
Monday , 26, February 2024 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsWeird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): So it looks like Weird Tales is back to its old habits of not providing good service to its readers and customers. This has been going on for years. A couple of people have left comments on this blog telling about their own lack of experience in receiving what […]
Sensor Sweep: H. P. Lovecraft, Forbidden Tomes, Ice Planets, Continental Op
Monday , 21, August 2023 Sensor Sweep 5 CommentsH. P. Lovecraft (Sprague de Camp Fan): Lovecraft: A Biography (Doubleday, 1975) was one of de Camp’s most ambitious works of nonfiction, and, at 175,000 words, one of his longest. It was originally even longer. De Camp notes in his autobiography that the manuscript was 200,000 words, which Doubleday considered too long, and was shortened […]
Sensor Sweep: Spider Man, Punisher, Gardner F. Fox, Lin Carter
Monday , 12, June 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Goodman Games): Linwood Vrooman Carter was born on June 9th, 1930 in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the august company of his fellow Appendix N authors, Lin Carter is a figure both of high esteem and some controversy. As an editor and critic, he is indispensable, most notably for his role in editing the landmark Ballantine […]