~ Book Reviews ~
SEP/23/14
‘The Boldest Stroke’ — The Attack On Zeigler’s Station, 1792, By Paul Clements
SEP/23/14
‘An Unrelenting Barbarian’ — One Man, Two Worlds, And An Undeserved Reputation: The Life And Times Of Simon Girty By Mark Sage
SEP/23/14
‘Do Not Tamely Submit’ — The Siege Of Fort Randolph By Matt Wulff
SEP/22/14
‘Buck Teeth Funny Hands’ — Dress Of White Silk By Richard Matheson
SEP/21/14
‘God’s Dog’ — Coyote & Cougar By Dave Smith
SEP/15/14
‘My Arm Fails Me’ — The Frontiersmen By Pat O’Neil: Appendix 20
SEP/14/14
‘Hand-to-Paw Combat’ — Black Bears, From Don’t Get Eaten: The Dangers Of Animals That Charge Or Attack, By Dave Smith
SEP/14/14
‘Getting Close To The Torch’ — The Brass Wall By David Kocieniewski
SEP/10/14
‘Divisible By Three’ — Tesla: The Wizard Of Electricity, By David J. Kent
SEP/10/14
‘Reward Their Vicious Labors’ — Priest-Kings Of Gor: The Chronicles Of Counter-Earth Volume 3, By John Norman
SEP/10/14
‘Children Picking Up Pebbles’ — The Path Between The Seas: The Creation Of The Panama Canal 1870-1914 By David McCullough
AUG/25/14
‘God’s Arena’ — “That Sea Of Blood”: Columbus And The Transatlantic Link By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/25/14
‘God Made Men, Not Lineages’ — The Extinction Of Islam In Western Europe By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/25/14
‘Preaching To Ravens’ — ‘This World Is Small”: Prophecy And Reality In 1492 By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
AUG/24/14
‘To Sail Beyond The World’ — The Boat Of A Million Years By Poul Anderson: Or The Difference Between Sci-fi And Fantasy
AUG/24/14
‘The Sweet Elusive’ — Dance Of The Dead By Richard Matheson
AUG/24/14
‘The Death Hug’s A-comin’’ — Hell’s Belle’s: The Trailsman #277 By Jon Sharpe
AUG/12/14
‘With Dreadful Joy’ — Witch War By Richard Matheson
AUG/12/14
‘The Rhythm Of The Tragedy’ — Blueprint For Armageddon: Part 3, By Dan Carlin
AUG/12/14
‘The Criminal Sane’ — The Enemy Of All The World By Jack London
AUG/11/14
‘As Boethius Sat’ — Feeling Chained? By Dennis Fisher
AUG/11/14
‘Against The Wafer God’ — Twin Towers By J.T.C.
AUG/02/14
‘Sci-fi Male Solipsism’ — Beauties In Beast Mode: Why Are So Many Men Applauding Masculine Women? By Jack Donovan
AUG/02/14
‘Under The Diaphonous Skies’ — Richard F. Burton On The Arabian Nights And The Mediocratie
JUL/27/14
‘Always Existing By Nature’ — The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks By Victor Davis Hansen
JUL/27/14
‘Knowledge Weighs Nothing’ — Lessons From The Typhoon Apocalypse By Art Merrill, In Stay Alive Magazine Summer 2014
JUL/27/14
‘Carrying A Knife In Public’ — What To Know When You Carry A Knife By Mike Haskew In Stay Alive, Summer 2014
JUL/27/14
‘Your Secret Life’ — Night Breed By Clive Barker With Marc Andreyko And Piotr Kowalski
JUL/27/14
‘So Near To God’ — Northlanders #3: Blood In The Snow By Brian Wood
JUL/25/14
‘The Edge Of Madness’ — The Mark By Sheri Broadbent
JUL/25/14
Better Than Tolkien — The 28 Top Science-Fiction And Fantasy Works
JUL/25/14
‘Impossible Things’ — Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels By David Pringle
JUL/18/14
‘The Pain Of Being Human’ — War Before Civilization: The Myth Of The Peaceful Savage By Lawrence H. Heeley
JUL/18/14
‘Tool Theory’ — Improvised Hunting Weapons By Dave Canterbury
JUL/18/14
‘The Northland Night’ — A Relic Of The Pliocene By Jack London
JUL/18/14
‘Dark As A Witch’s Hate’ — Wolves Beyond The Border By Robert E. Howard
JUL/16/14
‘Self-Initiated Field Activity’ — Contempt Of Cop, And How To Avoid It By James Tarr In Be Ready! Magazine
JUL/13/14
‘Weapons Live’ — Lone Wolf And Cub #18: The Guns Of Sakai By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima
JUL/12/14
‘Their Appalling Conduct’ — Treachery In Tripoli By Richard Tada
JUL/11/14
‘The Dog Said’ — Roog By Philip K. Dick
JUL/11/14
Science-Fiction Buffs Click Here — Ten Neglected Examples Of Ancient Science-fiction By Edward Wozniak At Balladeer’s Blog
JUL/10/14
Regalia — A 75-page Testament To The Devolution Of Experimental/Historic Weaponry
JUL/10/14
‘Being A Guinea Pig’ — ANIMAL’Z By Enki Bilal From Heavy Metal #269
JUL/09/14
‘The Abyss Of His Degradation’ — The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces Of The Egyptian Short Story, Edited By Denys Johnson-Davies
JUL/06/14
‘That Rotten Little Cheapskate!’ — Born Wild By J.T.C.
JUL/03/14
In The Reign Of Stupor Mundi — The Devil’s Horseman: The Mongol Invasion Of Europe By James Chambers
JUL/03/14
‘The Slave-Making Instinct’ — The Origin Of Species By Charles Darwin
JUN/27/14
‘Nothing Of Higher Value’ — A History Of The Arab Peoples: Part I & II, By Robert Hourani
JUN/26/14
‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ — SEAL Team Six By Howard E. Wasdin And Stephen Templin
JUN/26/14
The ‘Complexity Industrial Complex’ — Don’t Hurt People, And Don’t Take Their Stuff, A Libertarian Manifesto By Matt Kibbe
JUN/25/14
‘Challengers Of Oblivion’ — Selected Poems By Robinson Jeffers
JUN/19/14
Rise Of The Machine — Storm Of Steel By Ernst Junger
JUN/12/14
‘The Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan’ — Enjoy The Decline: Accepting And Living With The Death Of The United States By Aaron Clarey
JUN/10/14
‘The Gender Of Tortillas’ — The Meanings Of Macho: Being A Man In Mexico City By Matthew C. Gutmann
JUN/07/14
‘Between Oblivion And Redemption’ — The Bark: Part One Of Love Bites By Sheri Broadbent
JUN/07/14
‘The Hollowing Of The Middle’ — The Next America By Paul Taylor And The Pew Research Center
JUN/07/14
‘Came The Night’ — The Rull By A. E. Van Vogt
MAY/31/14
‘Individuation’ — Beyond Lies The Wub By Philip K. Dick
MAY/31/14
‘He Who Kills’ — Prey By Richard Matheson
MAY/30/14
‘The Antiquity Of Dreams’ — Dagon By H. P. Lovecraft
MAY/30/14
‘If I Am His’ — A Summary Of Our Daily Bread Tracts By Bill Crowder And Julie Ackerman Link
MAY/23/14
‘The Ataraxia Effect’ — Houston, Houston, Do You Read? By Alice B. Sheldon
MAY/23/14
‘A Caste Of Dusky Aristocrats’ — An Untitled Synopsis And Draft By Robert E. Howard
MAY/21/14
‘Remember’ — Hyborian Genesis: Notes On The Creation Of The Conan Stories By Patrice Louinet
MAY/20/14
‘The Trump Of Doom’ — Unto Death By Jack London
MAY/13/14
‘In This Lonely Island Of Mountains’ — Saddlebag Folk By James Watt Raine
MAY/13/14
‘Jupiter’s Whores’ — Grendel: Past Prime By Greg Rucka, Illustrated By Matt Wagner
MAY/13/14
‘Into This Vale Of Heavy Tears’ — The Fabulous Riverboat By Philip Jose Farmer
MAY/13/14
‘A Wolf Who Had Lingered Too Long’ — An Untitled Fragment By Robert E. Howard
MAY/13/14
‘The Jade Serpent’ — An Untitled Synopsis By Robert E. Howard
MAY/05/14
‘A Man Among Men’ — [Updated With Reader Notes] Crow Killer: The Saga Of Liver-Eating Johnson, By Raymond W. Thorp And Robert Bunker
MAY/05/14
‘A Nimbus Of Fire’ — The Devil In Iron By Robert E. Howard
MAY/05/14
The Hero’s Stage In A Drugged Age — Ancestral Fantasy & Cultural Spirit: Notes On Various Peoples Of The Hyborian Age & The Hyborian Age By Robert E. Howard
MAY/05/14
‘Hats In The Ring’ — The Manly Art By Elliot J. Gorn
MAY/01/14
‘In A Wrinkled, Black Suit’ — Buried Talents And The Near Departed By Richard Matheson
APR/29/14
‘Oops!’ — The Most Off The Hook Racist Comic Ever Drawn By J.T.C.
APR/29/14
‘A Faint Burn Of Despair’ — The Poet’s Wager By Andy Nowicki
APR/23/14
Expletive Omnibus — Wicked Words By Hugh Rawson
APR/23/14
‘The Sheriff’s Whore’ — The Painted Ladies Of San Quentin By David Paul And Jason Lenox With Joe Freistuhler
APR/20/14
‘Stupidity Sits Forever In Judgment’ — The Retreat Into The Forest By Ernst Junger
APR/18/14
After ‘Capitulation Day’ — The Man In The High Castle By Phillip K. Dick
APR/17/14
‘Eyes Burning In The Gloom’ — Rogues In The House By Robert E. Howard
APR/16/14
‘What You Can’t Fake’ — Easy As A-B-C By Laura Lippman
APR/16/14
‘No Running, No Jumping’ — The War Against Boys By Christina Hoff Sommers
APR/14/14
‘Watchers’ Of A World Unveiled — Encyclopedia Of Native Tribes Of North America By Michael G. Johnson And Richard Hook
APR/12/14
‘Cold Pig’ — With Delicate Mad Hands By Alice B. Sheldon
APR/12/14
Microbes And Macrobes? — Plagues And Peoples By William H. McNeill
APR/12/14
‘The House Deceives’ — Motel Man By Andy Nowicki
APR/12/14
‘The Hawk Upon The Wolf’ — Asaemon The Decapitator: Lone Wolf And Cub #16 By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima
APR/09/14
‘Happy Birthday’ — Gotch-ya!, March 05, 2014, Issue 336, Wanted-Arrests, Manatee & Sarasota
APR/09/14
‘Her Price Is Steel’ — Outlaw Of Gor By John Norman
APR/07/14
‘Not Black Leaf!’ — Dark Dungeons By J.T.C.
MAR/28/14
‘Lips Like Wine’ — The Pool Of The Black One By Robert E. Howard
MAR/28/14
‘In The Chinks Of Your World-Machine’ — The Women Men Don’t See By Alice B. Sheldon
MAR/28/14
‘Hearts Of Oak’ — Northlanders: The Cross + The Hammer By Brian Wood And Ryan Kelly
MAR/28/14
‘The War That Nobody Won’ — War Of 1812! A Frontline Combat Comic By Wally Wood
MAR/28/14
‘I Bring Absolution’ — The Marquis Danse Macabre By Guy Davis
MAR/28/14
‘Wide Swaths Of Death’ — A Platoon! A Frontline Comic By John Severin And Bill Elder
MAR/24/14
‘35 Million Shoes’ — War Is A Racket By Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler
MAR/24/14
Mia By Fabio Ruotolo — A Heavy Metal Comic From #267
MAR/23/14
‘The Minotaur’ — Manifest Destiny No. 2 By Chris Dingess, Mathew Roberts, Owen Gieni
MAR/21/14
‘My Evil Star’ — The Glass Bees By Ernst Junger
MAR/17/14
‘How Shall It Be Judged?’ — Notes On Reviewing Science Fiction
MAR/14/14
‘A Very Scary Man’ — Introduction To Ernst Junger’s The Glass Bees, By Bruce Sterling
MAR/10/14
‘A Bank Full Of Tears’ — Nine Years Under By Sheri Booker
MAR/08/14
‘Black Magic’ — The Art Of Jason Lenox: Volume Two
MAR/07/14
Conan As A Superhero? — The Ape-bat Of Marmet Tarn By Michael Fleisher And John Buscema
MAR/04/14
‘Action With Intent’ — Blood Brotherhood And Other Rites Of Male Alliance By Nathan F. Miller And Jack Donovan
MAR/04/14
‘Long Since Fled’ — Red By Jack Ketchum
MAR/04/14
‘My Body Will Eat From Itself’ — Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life And Missions With America’s Elite Warriors By Don Mann
MAR/02/14
‘Seventh Son’ — The Passenger By Jack Ketchum
FEB/28/14
‘All Good Citizens’ — Growing Up In Slavery By Yuval Taylor
FEB/28/14
‘Pity The Last’ — Lone Wolf And Cub #2: Pitiful Osue By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima
FEB/22/14
‘Seas Of Cosmic Filth’ — Xuthal Of The Dusk By Robert E. Howard
FEB/19/14
‘Happiness Is A Hard Master’ — Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
FEB/10/14
‘Strains Of Silent Night’ — A Solstice Story, Part 1 By Dominick Mattero
FEB/10/14
'Dying And Fallen' — The Old Kraut: An Epigram By Dominick Mattero
FEB/10/14
‘The Primitive Math Of Violence’ — The Way Of Men By Jack Donovan, The Most Important Book Of The 21st Century
FEB/09/14
‘A Plague Of Boils Upon You’ — The Road Of Kings By Timothy Truman And Gary Nord
FEB/09/14
‘Turning Into A Small Yellow Dog’ — Satan Comes To Salem By J.T.C.!
FEB/09/14
Conan The Husband — Age Of Conan Hyborian Adventures By Joshua Dysart
FEB/05/14
‘Pariahs, Wanderers Of The Earth’ — Iron Shadows In The Moon By Robert E. Howard
FEB/05/14
‘The Curse Of Heaven’ — The French Revolution In San Domingo By Lothrop Stoddard
FEB/05/14
‘This Is Evolution’ — Thirteen By Joseph Freistuhler
JAN/28/14
‘This Ghastly Sacrifice’ — The Vale Of Lost Women By Robert E. Howard, And The 2002 Illustrations By Mark Schultz: His Take, Her Take With V. J. Waks
JAN/26/14
Best Novel Of The 20th Century — The Book Of The New Sun By Gene Wolfe: Shadow Of The Torturer
JAN/26/14
‘The Ideology Of Western Suicide’ — A Foreword By Prof. Kevin MacDonald
JAN/23/14
‘And You’re Merely A Man’ — The Good Witch Of Morgan’s Peak By Sheri Broadbent
JAN/22/14
‘Horatius At The Bridge’ — The Roman Army By Osprey Publishing, With Stephan Turnbull And Angus McBride
JAN/22/14
Men Of The Silent Land — Spartan Reflections By Paul Cartledge
JAN/15/14
‘My Dead Child Walking In The Garden’ — His Take, Her Take: Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
JAN/13/14
‘A Hideous Thing Came To Pass’ — The Scarlet Citadel By Robert E. Howard
JAN/13/14
‘Just Rag Dolls’ — The Deliverance Of Evil By Roberto Costantini
JAN/12/14
‘All Made Up Of Wonders’ — Olaudah Equiano And The Bad Spirits Of The Sea: A Primitive Boy’s View Of Technology
JAN/12/14
The American Cane — Stick-Fighting: Self-Defense, Cane, Yawara, Umbrella, Handstick, Walking Stick By Bruce Tegner
JAN/09/14
‘One Tank Of Gas Away’ — How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It By James Wesley, Rawles
JAN/08/14
‘The Swallower Of The Dead’ — Mummies Of The World Exhibit At The Maryland Science Center
JAN/06/14
‘No Superhero Story’ — Prometheus Unbound And Making A Fool Of God By Richard Caldwell
JAN/06/14
‘The Goddess And The Jaguar’ — 21st Century Shaman, Mark A. Nelson
JAN/02/14
‘Morning-Crowned And Shinning’ — The Tower Of The Elephant By Robert E. Howard, The Perfect Adventure Story
JAN/02/14
‘We All Deserve To Go To Hell’ — Charlie’s Ants By J.T.C.
JAN/02/14
‘This Megalomaniac Disk’ — Out Of The Silent Planet By C.S. Lewis
DEC/27/13
‘Obedience Is Due’ — Antigone By Sophocles
DEC/26/13
‘The Flute Of The Fallen Tiger’ — Lone Wolf And Cub #4 By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima, With Frank Miller
DEC/23/13
‘The Smartest Niցցer In The Pine Woods.' — Twelve Years A Slave By Solomon Northup: Appendix 14
DEC/22/13
‘I Am The Logical Conclusion’ — Under The Nihil By Andy Nowicki
DEC/20/13
‘Death In A Lonely Place At Midnight’ — The God In The Bowl By Robert E. Howard
DEC/20/13
Three Worlds Meet — The Trapper’s Bride By Rex Allen Norman
DEC/20/13
‘Eyes Forward’ — Manifest Destiny #1 By Chris Dingess, Mathew Roberts And Owen Gieni
DEC/13/13
‘A Wisp Of Gossamer’ — The Frost Giant’s Daughter By Robert E. Howard
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