Black God’s Kiss by C.L. Moore

Many fantasy authors have created their own expies of Conan the Cimmerian, especially before The Lord of the Rings created Continue reading →

Earth’s Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Once upon a time – but whether in the time past or time to come is a matter of little Continue reading →

Cleansed and Set in Gold by Matthew Sturges

I enjoy superheroes. The vast majority of stories with them are in the comics medium (I’ll sidestep the debate about Continue reading →

Exo-Skeleton Town by Jeffrey Ford

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humans travel to another planet and meet aliens they call Bugs (which Continue reading →

The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter

Sometimes all you need is a neat conceit and the storytelling to follow it through. In today’s story, Baxter starts Continue reading →

Writ in Water, or the Gingerbread Man by Avram Davidson

Davidson’s later work has a unique style that is a joy to behold, dancing through half a dozen different lines Continue reading →

The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford

There are certain stories that are inextricably linked to when I first read them, especially for horror stories. For example, Continue reading →

The Poetry of Fantasy by Mary Quella Kelly

I must admit, when I would read The Lord of the Rings in my teens I would usually skip over Continue reading →