Search Results for: tale covers

Vintage Treasures: Tales of Robin Hood by Clayton Emery

Comments 4 comments

Tales of Robin Hood (Baen, 1988). Cover by Larry Elmore I’m a sucker for Robin Hood stories, and that’s probably why I bought Clayton Emery’s Tales of Robin Hood in 1988. Well, that and the fact that I thought it was an anthology. It’s actually a novel, a magical take on the legend of Sherwood Forest, with witches, demon boars, black-robed monks, and a Robin “attacked on all sides by sorcery and sword.” Clayton Emery had a steady career as…

Read More Read More

Weird Tales Deep Read: January 1936

Comments 2 comments

Another Brundage Pastel I’m going to change the focus of the Weird Tales deep read slightly, to hopefully give a somewhat more coherent view of the magazine by focusing on a particular year, while still maintaining the month-at-a time format. First up is January 1936, followed by the ten subsequent issues published that year. (One issue was bi-monthly, and I’ve already covered the July issue, so you can just check that particular installment in the link provided below if you’re…

Read More Read More

Weird Tales Deep Read: January 1945

Comments 2 comments

Weird Tales, January 1945. Cover by Margaret Brundage This time we’re jumping ahead in our deep read of the Unique Magazine, to the January 1945 issue. The old guard has largely changed. Howard has been dead for almost six years, Lovecraft out-lived him less than a year. C. L. Moore hadn’t published in WT since 1939, Clark Ashton Smith longer. (Reprints not considered,) That doesn’t mean there were no familiar names. Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, and others continued…

Read More Read More

Meeting a Great Australian Fabulist, Angela Slatter: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Tartarus Press and All the Murmuring Bones, Titan Books

Comments 0 Comment

The Tallow-Wife and Other Stories (Tartarus Press, February 24, 2021) and All the Murmuring Bones(Titan Books, March 9, 2021). Covers by Kathleen Jennings, and unknown Any new book by Angela Slatter is a reason to rejoice for any lover of good dark fantasy. Slatter is a very talented Australian writer, a born storyteller or, to be precise, a great fabulist, an author of modern, complex fairy tales for grownups. The Tallow-Wife is a collection of stories and novellas the core…

Read More Read More

Vintage Treasures: H. Beam Piper’s Paratime Tales

Comments 12 comments

Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Ace, 1977) and Paratime (Ace Books, 1981). Covers by Michael Whelan H. Beam Piper was one of my favorite science fiction writers in my formative years. I adored his Fuzzy novels — Little Fuzzy (1962), Fuzzy Sapiens (1964), and the “long lost” novel Fuzzies and Other People (1984), published twenty years after Piper died by suicide in 1964 — and they were one of the first science fiction novels I passed along to my children when…

Read More Read More

Cozy Catastrophes and Sinister Archaeology: Weird Tales #364 edited by Jonathan Maberry

Comments 0 Comment

Weird Tales #364. Cover by Lynne Hansen As I write this, Weird Tales falls just two years short of celebrating its centennial — an astonishing feat, given that the fiction magazines in existence at that time, all considered far more prestigious than this lurid showcase of fantasy and horror, have vanished into time and space as if they never existed. (Only Argosy, revived in 2016 by Altus Press, matches it in longevity.) With such august placement in pop culture history,…

Read More Read More

Evil Space Plants, Lecherous Dragons, and the Mysteries of the Vampire: Weird Tales 364 Arrives

Comments 5 comments

Weird Tales #364. Cover by Lynne Hansen What’s this? Can it be? Two issues of Weird Tales magazine published in a single year? That hasn’t happened since (hastily checks notes) 2012! There are other changes afoot as well, not just this insanely overambitious publication schedule. Marvin Kaye, who took over as editor in 2012 with issue 360 and managed just four issue in the last nine years, is no longer on the masthead. Replacing him as editor is Jonathan Maberry,…

Read More Read More

Witches, Menacing Forests, & the True Meaning of Fairy Tales: A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

Comments 0 Comment

Covers by Dan Santat The Christmas break is usually a bit of a reading vacation for me, a chance to catch up on the year’s big reads. Of course, I don’t always want to read big, important books while I’m on vacation. Sometimes (usually), I just want something fun. That’s how I ended up reading Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark & Grimm yesterday, the first book in his dark retelling of favorite kid’s stories. The series was published nearly a…

Read More Read More

A Tale of Horrific First Contact: The Sentience Trilogy by Terry A. Adams

Comments 0 Comment

Covers by James Gurney, Richard Hescox, and Stephan Martiniere Every time an author completes a trilogy, we bake a cake at the Black Gate rooftop headquarters. Given how long some big fantasy trilogies take to wrap up, we’ve learned patience over the years. Even so, we rarely have have to wait 27 years, as dedicated fans did for Terry A. Adams popular Sentience trilogy. It opened with Sentience, Adams’ debut novel, which made quite a splash in 1986.  It was…

Read More Read More