Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 30, 2018 For the final entry in the Continuing the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge, I wanted to finish with one of my favorite pre-Tolkien fantasy stories… one that I haven’t read in years. I re-read it for this challenge, and while my take on it […]
PTFC Challenge #2: The Women of the Wood
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 21, 2018 Continuing the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge, I have a story by Abraham Merritt, an outstanding pulp-era fantasy writer whom I only discovered last year. He was an inspiration to and contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft among others. He certainly gets pretty lush in his […]
PTFC Challenge #1: Black God’s Kiss
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 14, 2018 Fellow modern pulpy author Alexandru Constantin issued a challenge on Friday – the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge. It’s partly a reminder to people that Tolkien didn’t invent the fantasy genre, and to shed some light on the breadth of the genre long before […]