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Lin Carter and the Ballantines Changed My Life
Books, Fantasy, Fraser Sherman

Lin Carter and the Ballantines Changed My Life

By frasersherman August 12, 2021 August 12, 2021 11

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. …

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Jeffty Is Five … and I’m Sixty-Three
Books, Culture, Fantasy, Fraser Sherman

Jeffty Is Five … and I’m Sixty-Three

By frasersherman June 28, 2021 June 27, 2021 1

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 …

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Satan is in that magazine! Or, I have a new short story out
Fantasy, Fraser Sherman

Satan is in that magazine! Or, I have a new short story out

By frasersherman November 10, 2020 November 13, 2020 2

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 …

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Oddball pulp and paperback covers
Fantasy, Fraser Sherman, Pulp magazines

Oddball pulp and paperback covers

By frasersherman October 4, 2020 October 4, 2020 4

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 …

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Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!
Comics, Fantasy

Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!

By frasersherman September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020 4

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 …

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Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.
Fantasy, Fraser Sherman, Horror, Movies, Mystery and Mayhem

Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.

By frasersherman August 9, 2020 August 9, 2020 3

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 …

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Me, movies and movie books
Books, Fantasy, Fraser Sherman, Horror, Movies, Science Fiction, TV

Me, movies and movie books

By frasersherman May 27, 2020 May 27, 2020 2

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 …

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