Patricia A. McKillip - The Throme of the Erril of Sherrill
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Jason and the argonauts (1963)
RIP Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion special effects genius, 1920-2013.
This scene is what many of us still imagine during RPG skeleton encounters.
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L. Sprague De Camp - The Best of L. Sprague De Camp
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my actual copy
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A. Merritt - Creep Shadow Creep
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A. Merritt - Burn Witch Burn
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Poul Anderson - Conan the Rebel
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James Killius - Book of Shadows
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By some miracle, my copy of Red Nails still has the poster intact. This series, I gather was the first to try to re-establish Howard as the one true author of Conan, after the Carter/De Camp/Howard mashups from Lancer. This one is the last three of Howard’s Conan stories, intro and afterword by Karl Edward Wagner where he is dismissive of earlier additions and highlights how incredibly depressing Howard’s life was, and Howard’s essay on the backstory of Conan’s world “The Hyborian Age.” True story: when I was an adolescent, I collected a few of those Lancer books but never rea any of the stories in them, because “The Hyborian Age” was the first piece in the first book, and it was profoundly boring. I missed out big time on the stories, obviously, but all these later, I still skimmed the essay and it was still boring.
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Robert E. Howard - Conan: Red Nails
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
