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The Shadow Kingdom (Weird Tales, Aug 1929) by Robert E. Howard. Featuring Kull of Atlantis, king of Valusia.
"The statecraft of the Seven Empires is a mazy, monstrous thing..."
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The painting Atlantis (1972) by Frank Frazetta depicts a statue of an Atlantean warrior amidst partially submerged ruins.
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The Hanged Man (1895) by Eça de Queiroz and The Cannibals (1868) by Álvaro do Carvalhal are memorable macabre stories. They can be found translated to English by Margaret Jull Costa as part of the Dedalus Books of Fantasy series.
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A painting by Philippe Druillet, who co-founded Métal Hurlant. This image is from an art book, but was originally used as the cover of Pilote No. 663 (1972).
The Saga of Gnori the Bold, otherwise known as Gnori the Hammerfist, Slayer of Giants, the Man Who Killed A Thousand Wizards, and more....
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Gorogoa (2017), a great puzzle game with amazing artwork. The player combines and manipulates image tiles to change perspective, which causes events to occur and the story to unfold. The trailer doesn't show much gameplay to avoid spoilers.
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Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch (1951) by Clark Ashton Smith.
I missed this announcement in February. It's nice to see this new version being released this year. The cover art looks great.
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We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote post with yours.
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Also, Morgan's book (quoted below) is a great noir thriller with a big speculative twist. Well deserving of all the awesome reviews!
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Traffic not with ghosts
Lest if you do
You find their world
More real than earth to you.
From: Unsought Advice (Weird Tales, May 1937) by Dorothy Quick, used as the epigraph to Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps (From Beyond Press, 2024).
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Gnori the Bold. The Hammerfist. Slayer of Giants. Breaker of Chains. General of the Skaeric Legions. Looter of Arakesha. The Man Who Killed a Thousand Wizards. Hero of Drammagon and Old Shard. And tha...
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Artist John Sumrow shows his magnificently eldritch cover painting for the forthcoming new edition of Daniel Harms’s Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, which will be released in the second half of 2026.
We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote post with yours. (Also, please consider adding my weird neo-noir thriller The Divide to your reading list. It earned lovely reviews, including a handful of highly flattering Chandler comparisons, but it never quite found its audience.)
