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OCT/23/14
‘The Devil In The Dirt’ Quantico By Greg Bear
OCT/08/14
'To The World Which Disowned Him' Almuric By Robert E. Howard
OCT/03/14
‘Behavior That’s Admired’ Beowulf: A New Verse Translation By Seamus Heaney
OCT/02/14
‘Into The Circle Of Black’ Paycheck By Phillip K. Dick
SEP/29/14
‘Under Debbie’s Blue Umbrella’ Mr. Mercedes By Stephan King
SEP/29/14
‘This God-Forsaken World’ Surefire Means By Brandon Barrows
SEP/24/14
‘The Infernal Wind’ On Pain By Ernst Junger: A Must Read For The Aspiring Science-Fiction Author
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
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