Pulp Story Review: “The Dunwich Horror” by H. P. Lovecraft

(Any images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Greetings, explorers of the strange and mysterious. For those of you who might not know, H. P. Lovecraft was a writer who specialized in horror and weird fiction, published in the 1920s and 30s. Many of his works were part

Ranking the Conan the Barbarian Tales

Welcome, travelers and adventurers! We’ve looked through all the Robert E. Howard stories collected by Arcturus Publishing’s Classic Fantasy Collection, and now it’s time to put them in order from worst to best! Keep in mind, everything in this post is my opinion, so of course it is also objective fact. Whatever views you may

Pulp Story Review: “Queen of the Black Coast” by Robert E. Howard

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Well, friends, here it is. The final installment in our Conan the Barbarian reviews. And just like Arcturus Publishing’s Classic Fantasy Collection, (my resource for these tales), we’re ending with Howard’s 1934 tale “Queen of the Black Coast.”It is Howard’s

Pulp Story Review: “The Tower of the Elephant” by Robert E. Howard

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Greetings, adventurers. Going through the stories included in Arcturus Publishing’s The Classic Fantasy Collection, today we look at Robert E. Howard’s 1933 pulp tale “The Tower of the Elephant”. It is the third published story featuring Howard’s iconic Conan the

Pulp Story Review: “The Color Out of Space” by H. P. Lovecraft

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Greetings, veary travelers! I vant to get your veb views! Bleh bleh bleh! …what, nothing? No laughs? Nothing? Wow. Tough crowd. And I practiced, like, a whole half hour on that impression! Anyhoo, this is a special holiday post. While

Pulp Story Review: “Rogues in the House” by Robert E. Howard

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Hello and greetings, friends. Today we’re continuing our examinations of a sampling of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian pulp stories. Last time, we read “The Scarlet Citadel”, but today we’re skipping ahead some and looking at 1934’s “Rogues in

Pulp Story Review: “The Scarlet Citadel” by Robert E. Howard

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Greetings, adventurous readers. In our last review, we looked at Robert E. Howard’s “The Phoenix on the Sword”, which was the first published appearance of his iconic character, Conan the Barbarian. Today, we look at Conan’s second published appearance, Howard’s

Short Story Review: “The Phoenix on the Sword” by Robert E. Howard

(All images in this article are for nonprofit entertainment and are not owned by me.) Howdy folks, you’re reading the first of what will be many reviews of classic genre short stories. I found this story, and many of the other stories I plan to look at, in Sirius Publishing’s The Classic Fantasy Collection. (This