Friday, July 29, 2016

Blood 'N' Thunder #48 (Summer 2016)
Now available!

Features an article by Morgan Holmes discussing Western yarns by Robert E. Howard.

The latest issue of Blood 'n' Thunder continues our survey of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, that most underrated pulp reprint magazine.

Readers will also find extensive coverage of important vintage films: "Cliffhanger Classics" revisits The House Without a Key, the 1926 silent serial that introduced moviegoers to Charlie Chan, while "Pulp Page to Silver Screen" takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at three 1946 Monogram Pictures whodunits featuring The Shadow.

Other department installments focus on such rare pulps as Detective Dragnet and Dime Mystery Book.

Prolific novelist Will Murray contributes a piece on a proposed Street & Street hero pulp that was to have had a time-traveling protagonist and be edited by the legendary SF writer John W.Campbell.

The issue is rounded out by two portfolios; one features ads for 1930s Street & Smith pulps published in the company's top-selling movie fan magazine Picture Play, the other reproduces rare pulp cover paintings scanned from the original art.

100 pages, 8x10, trade paperback
Price: $12.50

http://muraniapress.com/book/blood-n-thunder-summer-2016/


Skelos Press: SKELOS #1
Now available!

A horror and fantasy journal featuring short fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and art by both seasoned pros and talented newcomers!

First issue features a short, previously unpublished Robert E. Howard draft that is illustrated by Mark Schultz.

CONTENTS
Short Fiction
"The Dead Unicorn" by Scott Cupp
"Hungry" by Charles Gramlich
"The Night Maere" by Scott Hannan
"The Nameless Tribe Drafts"  by Robert E. Howard (Illustrated by Mark Schultz)
"The Yellow Death" by David Hardy
"The Burning Messenger" by Matt Sullivan
"Dangerous Pearl" by Ethen Nahté

Novelettes
"The Drowned Dead Shape" by Keith Taylor
"One Less Hand for the Shaping of Things" by Jason Ray Carney

Poetry
"Sorceress" by Ashley Dioses
"Midnight in the Ebon Rose Bower" by K. A. Opperman
"The Casualty of the Somme" by Frank Coffman
"The Writer" by Jason Hardy
"Totem" by Pat Calhoun
"Surtur" by James McNew
"A Revelation Dream" by Kenneth Bykerk

Essays
"Nameles Tribes: Robert E. Howard's Anthropological World-Building in Men of the Shadows" by Jeffrey Shanks
"From the Cosmos to the Test-Tube: Lovecraft, Machen, and the Sublime" by Karen Joan Kohoutek
"A Sword-Edge Beauty as Keen as Blades: C. L. Moore and the Gender Dynamics of Sword-and-Sorcery" by Nicole Emmelhainz
Special Features
"Skull Session" by Mark Finn (Editorial)
"Grettir and the Draugr" by Samuel Dillon and Jeffrey Shanks  (Illustrated story)
"About the Contributors"

The Bone Yard
Reviews by Josh Akins, Bobbie Derie, Charles Hoffman, Paul McNamee, Brian Murphy, Deuce Richardson, Todd Vick, and Keith West

Trade paperback, 7"x10", 175 pages, $10 plus shipping
Single digital edition: $3

http://skelospress.com/shopskelos/



Peruse the New Skelos Magazine Website
By Damon C. Sasser

New post at the REH: Two-Gun Raconteur blog.

http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/peruse-the-new-skelos-magazine-website/


Wednesday, July 27, 2016


CONAN VOLUME 19: XUTHAL OF THE DUSK TPB
Arriving in comic shops August 3!

Fred Van Lente (Writer), Brian Ching (Art), Guiu Vilanova (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Eric Powell (Cover)

Conan and the former slave girl Natala dare to enter the city of Xuthal, where a mysterious horror waits in the shadows! Then, Conan fights a deadly duel as Janissa the Widowmaker makes her triumphant return! This enthralling volume collects issues #13-19 of the Conan the Avenger series.

Trade paperback, 176 pages, $19.99

Dark Horse Comics

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