[ The original version of this post appeared more than four years ago. I thought, in light of this month's theme, that it might be wort...

Despite his profound influence over the subsequent development of fantasy, science fiction, and, of course, horror, adaptations of H.P. Love...

After seeing that advertisement for the James Bond 007 RPG, I found myself thinking about it, something I hadn't done in quite some ti...

Reader Marc Sonnenberger pointed me toward this terrific claymation fantasy/horror movie on Youtube. Entitled The Dead Need No Chairs , it...

On January 13 of this year, I commemorated , as I always do, the birthday of Clark Ashton Smith, whose most famous poem, "The Hashish-E...

Long ago, I discussed my own thoughts about the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie. In issue #63 of Dragon  (July 1982), Gary Gygax offers his ...

[This is a repost of something I wrote almost four years ago . Last night, I found myself thinking about space suits in science fiction RPGs...

Because of my post about the limited pop cultural footprint of Dungeons & Dragons as a game , several readers pointed me toward the imag...

In issue #13 of Polyhedron   talks briefly about the status of a supposed  Dungeons & Dragons movie. Three years earlier, the topic come...

In looking at the early history of Dungeons & Dragons , there's a lot of talk about its faddishness in the late '70s and early ...

With issue #79 of White Dwarf (July 1986), I reach the penultimate issue I'll cover in this series. Though I'm glad to have done it ...

Issue #75 of White Dwarf (March 1986) sports a horror – or I should I say Call of Cthulhu ? – themed cover by Lee Gibbons, whose work appear...

Roleplaying games based on officially licensed properties started appearing quite early in the history of the hobby. FGU's Flash Gordon ...

Issue #73 of White Dwarf (January 1986) features a cover by Lee Gibbons, an artist whose work I recall from various Call of Cthulhu products...

Last week, I wrote about Clark Ashton Smith's "The Devotee of Evil,"  whose original appearance in the pages of Stirring Scien...

Once again, I stretch the terms "pulp," "fantasy," and perhaps even "library" beyond the breaking point in an ...

One of the many oddities of contemporary popular culture is that, while fantasy ,   in the broad sense, has never been more popular, the  sw...