Stinger by Robert R. McCammon Recently I was on a stakeout that went wrong in a bad way. Not the kind conducted by police officers or...

The Mark of the Demons by John Jakes In honor of the recent passing of John Jakes, I offer this review of a less well-known work. Well,...

Knaves Over Queens by the Wild Card Collective edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass Thank God for this book. After the...

Storm Front by Jim Butcher For years, I passed on the Dresden Files. I never precisely turned my nose up at the popular and long-running...

Amazing Adventures featuring the Original X-Men #8 – cover blurb box: “Assault on Fortress Magneto!” This was a reprint of the Stan Lee...

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 – Three years ago, I picked up this older annual on the cheap. Leaving aside the condition of the book,...

In my recent review of Kull and the Barbarians, I briefly mentioned Weny Pini’s portrayal of Red Sonja as an early example of cosplay....

The third film in our Ape-Man mini-marathon is Tarzan's Revenge, featuring Glenn Morris as Tarzan and Eleanor Holm as, well, Eleanor Reed...

Cancelled! Another Michael Whelan cover starts things off, though not quite as strongly as the high-water mark of the second issue. More...

It seems as if I'm getting on a Tarzan movie kick, so here's a second Ape-Man review. This time we're talking about another hybrid beast,...

After a debut issue full of reprints there are new stories this time! Even the cover, another early work by famous fantasy artist Michael...

A review of the adventure serial turned movie, starring Buster Crabbe as Tarzan.

The cover blurb reads: “First Issue Collectors’ Item!” Hah! I say again, hah! This “first issue collectors’ item” was a bunch of...

TL:DR I promised myself I would keep this one mercifully short. Here it is, as short as I can make it: If you like George R.R. Martin’s...

Thongor is Missing! It’s cookie season for Girl Scouts and, seeing as two of those scouts are my daughters, that means I have spent a lot...

Thongor and the Dragon City by Lin Carter "The adventures of the mightiest sword and sorcery hero of them all!" So sayeth the cover copy,...

WARRIOR OF LLARN by Gardner F. Fox A gift from my good friend and very talented artist James Hanson, Fox's sword and planet story stands...

What is Sword and Sorcery? What makes it distinct from the broader classification of Fantasy? For fans of both genres these are familiar...

Lin Carter's Thongor is the subject of several reviews on my blog. Some consider the Lemurian barbarian a pale pastiche of Conan. Others...

CONAN - THE SWORD OF SKELOS by Andrew Offutt The next entry in our review of the non-Howard Conans is Andrew Offutt's Sword of Skelos. A...