Lin Carter and the Ballantines Changed My Life
Or at least changed my taste on books (this is another repost from my own blog, from 2013) Someone once described the late specfic author Lin Carter as fantasy methadone. …
Category: Fantasy
Jeffty Is Five … and I’m Sixty-Three
When I read Harlan Ellison’s Jeffty Is Five back in 1978 (in Terry Carr’s collection The Year’s Finest Fantasy), it blew me away. When I reread it a few years ago (this …
Satan is in that magazine! Or, I have a new short story out
Okay, actually it’s an old story. I wrote Dark Satanic Mills more than a decade ago, sold it to Tales of the Talisman and reprinted it a couple of years ago in my …
Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …
Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!
Edit Post When Marvel launched Conan the Barbarian in 1970, it was a game-changer. Roy Thomas had seen fan letters asking for a Conan book and he knew there was …
Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.
When my DVD player/VCR died a while back, that left my VHS tapes more or less orphaned. Sure, I could get down my backup VCR and swap it out with …
Me, movies and movie books
So last week I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book, due next year, on Alien Visitors (working title): ET invaders, alien/human romance, friendly aliens, alien superheroes, aliens …