Let’s be honest, you can only eat so many Conans, however much you like a barbarian breakfast. And there’s enough pseudo-medieval European fantasy around to sink a fleet of dhows. There comes a time when you want fantasy with a difference. So how could we miss out on the Sword and Soul movement? We couldn’t. Today we’re opening up the subjects of Sword and Soul, African-based fantasy, and Steamfunk, which sort of explains itself, with writer, editor and publisher Milton Davis. Plus some cracking art, of course.
Welcome, dear listener. Today, being short of elephants, we’re going to address the Carnacki in the room. If you have no idea what we’re talking about, then let us speak plainly. A few years before his death in the First World War, a man called William Hope Hodgson wrote nine short stories about a British occult detective, though only six were published in his lifetime. Oh, and it turns out that not all of the stories were actually occult. Continue reading The Carnacki Conundrum: Of Hogs and Men→
Have you finished the first draft of your story, novella or novel? Then you’re ready to continue with our indispensable guide to becoming a Bestselling Author. This time we concentrate on aspects of proofreading and that initial editing process, which are Quite Crucial. They are also surprisingly absent from a number of books nowadays. It may be that the writer was busy that day and had to worm the cat. We don’t know. We do know that “In a whole in the ground their lived, a hobbit.” would not have helped J R R Tolkien’s chances much. Continue reading How to be a Bestselling Author Part 2→
He was published by Arkham House in 1962. His first collection came out in 1964. We devoured his Cold Print collection in 1985. He’s been called many things (as well as Mr Campbell Sir) – “Perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition” and “The leading horror writer of our generation”. And he’s still at it. Not only writing, but turning up at meetings or adding his musings to Facebook groups, as if Pharaoh himself had suddenly turned up to point out that your mud-bricks are a bit sloppy.
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So we felt that we had to draw your attention to the release of The Booking by Ramsey Campbell, from Dark Regions Press. It would have been wrong not to. Continue reading Excavating Ramsey the Great→
