Part 1 of my Zorro homage is now available to read from @cliffhangermag.bsky.social, written for an anthology that fell through, and featuring an off-brand version of the character from a now-public-domain radio show. Glad it has finally found a home. cliffhangermagazine.com/2025/11/07/d...

The Coming Crash of the Sword & Sorcery Revival www.reddit.com/r/SwordandSo...

Well ordered my Halloween costume, evil wizard-style hooded robes, which means I am halfway to becoming a dungeon synth musician.

Technically Hindu mythology, but if a Soviet precursor to Gennady Tartakovsky portraying Kali riding a lion while bearing axe and spear to take on a giant bull-headed demon while a modern badass classical music cue plays isn't sword & sorcery, then I don't know what is. youtu.be/NNFpGZSJYPE?...

My contributor's copy of Bronze Knuckles Magazine has arrived! Containing my story "The Purple Ghost Triumphant"

A story of mine will appear in an upcoming horror anthology. Details TBA later.

Happy to report my 19th-century swashbuckler yarn "Death from the Steppe!" will be in @cliffhangermag.bsky.social for November. Check out for free "The Purple Shroud" by @orcwriter.bsky.social and the upcoming "Queen of the Communist Cannibals" by @corabuhlert.bsky.social cliffhangermagazine.com

Soon to be available through Bronze Knuckles Magazine, a tale of Vegas showgirls, a "men's magazine" mogul, and the revenge of a masked supervillain. Think of it as Die Hard at the Playboy mansion starring Lili St. Cyr with a machine gun. bronzeknucklesmagazine.com

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ah yes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Proud to be the 8th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

The August 2025 issue of S&SM, no. 163, is now live with four new stories and an essay for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! swordsandsorcerymagazine.com

A little bit of cozy fantasy whimsy discovered while out and about today.

Oh hey! I have a new story coming out! "The Purple Ghost Triumphant" will be published in Bronze Knuckles Magazine #13. Ironically, the story is not Sword & Sorcery, but the cover sure is... Find out more here: bronzeknucklesmagazine.com

Today's Classic Cover is the 1982 Ace Fantasy Paperback edition of Jirel of Joiry (cover artist unknown). CL Moore originally published the Jirel of Joiry stories in the 1930s in the magazine Weird Tales. They stood out as early examples of the sword & sorcery genre and for their female protagonist

Seriously, check out Terence Stamp in Federico Fellini's VERY loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Toby Dammit/Never Bet the Devil Your Head" for SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. LSD, Cocaine, existential despair and Mario Bava concentrated into an absolute nightmarish segment.

RIP Terence Stamp. General Zod, the Limey, Willie Garvin in MODESTY BLAISE, and my personal favourite: burnout actor Toby Dammit going insane in Federico Fellini's very VERY loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Never Bet The Devil Your Head" in SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.

"The Lockheed Vega was trailing smoke over an endless emerald canopy. In a flash, Mitch cycled through all the things that could have gone wrong." -SKY WOLF OF AMAZONAS cliffhangermagazine.com/2025/08/15/s... #adventure #pulpmagazine #freefiction #opensubmission #pulpfest #pulpsky

Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz or How to Suppress Women’a Writing – The Fantasy Edition I'm over at Galactic Journey again - for the second time this month and a third article is coming later this month, which must be a new record for me - to talk about Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz, a novel…

Saw a sub call for a retro 50s B-Movie anthology. I think it will be very hard to top Norman Partridge's Anthology IT CAME FROM THE DRIVE-IN. Just the story titles alone, you can't beat for hitting that trash vibe perfectly.

Another Sword & Sorcery thread: The interesting legacy of Robert Jordan's Conan novels is that, despite not being well-regarded by Conan fans and Wheel of Time fans being lukewarm at best, it was due to his WOT fame that Rebellion apparently bought the Conan IP on a whim in the early 2000s. (1/?)

Put that tray table up and prepare for high-flying adventure this Friday in "SKY WOLF OF AMAZONAS", the next thrilling release from CLIFFHANGER! Magazine. www.cliffhangermagazine.com

Cued to the start 20'53" - 28'12" - The Hall of Fame Acceptance for the late Charles R. Saunders in the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. Accepting on his behalf is friend Jon Tattrie, who wrote an upcoming Saunders bio, "To Leave a Warrior Behind." www.youtube.com/live/wy2k5h0...

Please note, while Dirty Magick Magazine has an urban fantasy bent, at least a third of our publications have been S&S. It's part of our mission statement.

So the Sword & Sorcery revival in short fiction as looked at over the course of ten years: A Thread. The baseline in 2015 was approximately 50 slots, as Swords & Sorcery did three slots a month, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly did 3-4 slots per issue (I know they had the occasional reprint).

Drop something VAMPY 🧛🏻‍♀️ 🦇 🖤

So from last night as promised/threatened, a thread on how to argue Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is in fact a Sword & Sorcery story, a thread:

Currently writing: A 300-word essay on whether a short story @christopherrowe.bsky.social assigned to me can be considered Sword & Sorcery. The story in question? Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" Yes, you read that correctly.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL.

A story I've written has just been described as "Robert E. Howard's Pontypool" and I am just over the moon with that quote.

'Finished Turning of the Bones and.........it was a great read! It was a mixture of zombie survival and Imaro style war epic . . . A Sword & Soul classic that deserves follow up. - Gavin Matthew, Natafromedia.com On sale now! www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page...

I'd be more excited about the new ALIEN TV show if it were set at a Weyland-Yutani corporate retreat with one of the execs already carrying a chestburster... ...and have the entire thing written by Armando Iannucci.

Write story in 2020. Have a publisher take three years before anthology comes out. Have it now out of print and anthology delisted in just two years after as publisher closes down. It wouldn't sting except for the delay and it's the second story that ever saw print, with my first in 2017.

Laying eyes on this today has filled me with absurd delight. Art by Earl Norem.

That moment when you titlle trop a Dance with the Dead track in the story you're writing. youtu.be/QIMlGbv9K9w?...

Absolutely jaw-dropping in not just how far it goes in brutality and violence in a Comics-code approved Marvel comic, but also in how incisive thought provoking and disquieting its look at the appeal of vigilante fiction to the reader, and real life. Writer Steve Gerber was on fire with this one.

What if Conan the Barbarian got his hands on a lightsaber, teamed up with Chewbacca and ran riot through the world of Mad Max? Yeah, I loved this as a kid.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. youtu.be/vh7cGW_elQ0?...

I'll take "Animated sci-fi movies from the early 80s with sex and drug references as well as multiple Cheap Trick songs on the soundtrack." for $500, Alex, er, Allan. I'd love the Two Minutes to Late Night to assemble an all-star crew to cover the Debbie Harry/Robin Zander song "Send Love Through."

O B E Y www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions

I feel whoever comes up with the best story how that knight ended in there should submit it to @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/medieva...

A point made by Claire Noto in her recent interview suggested that she believed Red Sonja could have been a breakout character in pop culture on the level of Howard the Duck. I think she might've been right, because in 1975 there was apparently a Red Sonja *convention?*

One of the fascinating things for me over the past few years, as I've been getting back into Sword & Sorcery, is realizing how many women, queer people, and others were involved from the beginning, who were for a long time written out of history. fourcolorsinners.com/2025/07/08/t...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

IMARO author and Sword & Soul originator Charles R. Saunders to be inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. www.csffa.ca/the-csffa-ha...

Are there any interviews with Leigh Brackett or Edmond Hamilton that confirm Hamilton rewrote Brackett's Eric John Stark stories into the novels' Secret of Sinharat' and 'People of the Labyrinth'? The only alleged confirmation that he did is in the 1979 edition of Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Proud to be the 100th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Old Moon Quarterly: The Dark Fantasy Magazine! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Oof, just watched a new YT video talking about how the Del Reys ruined fantasy forever for turning Lord of the Rings into formula. Valid if hyperbolic, yet lost in cherry-picked chronological errors with Moorcock being a late-period GrimDark figure as opposed to being JRRT's pulpy contemporary.

I get having to be guided through your life's path, but I prefer to be guided a little less by stick and a little bit more by carrot, if you know what I mean.