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Since I found out this exists, I have been trying to watch it as close to Halloween as possible every year. I think it's great. Although I have only ever "read" Pigeons From Hell in audiobook form, I think this is a fairly accurate adaptation. But I would love to hear what folks think about it who are more familiar with the source material. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/7jXhlAexS3w?si=UdV4LbZDhk-so0Z_

I hope no one minds, but while I'm at it, I'd like to mention that I just created a Discord server specifically for discussing sword-and-sorcery in film, television, comic books, and audio formats. No prose literature or writing talk. No film/TV/comics of other genres talk. No general discussion or off-topic. I am not at all trying to compete with the existing sword-and-sorcery Discord servers! They have more traffic than I can keep up with as it is. New Edge Sword & Sorcery and Sword & Sorcery Tavern are two great servers that can fulfill any needs you may have in those areas quite adequately.

I created this server because they both have generalized "film-television" and "comics" channels that get tons of traffic and the vast majority of it seems to have nothing to do with sword-and-sorcery, so I stopped keeping up with them. I wanted there to be a place on Discord where I could discuss sword-and-sorcery films, television, and comic books, without wading through tons of discussion about film, television, and comic books of every other genre. So I made it. Hopefully it will consist of more than just me talking to myself. All are welcome!

https://discord.gg/8yhhnBjA

Conan The Cimmerian is considered by many to be the greatest sword and sorcery character of all time. Who is your personal favorite character and why?

Hey, I wanted to know if anyone had a link to somewhere to buy book 1 of Corum. I looked on Amazon and they only have it in digital or what I’m pretty sure is the graphic novel version. Thank you all

Been enjoying the conversations here and thought I’d share one of my own pieces.

Mostly I work with India ink brush and dip pen but decided to add some watercolor to this barbarian.

Hope you enjoy it.

Got a hot sword and sorcery opinion you want to share? Need to make the case that, say Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are the greatest sword and sorcery heroes of all time? Want to connect with other S&S fans? Try TRIAPA!

TRIAPA is an amateur webzine/press association that accepts submissions related to SWORD and SORCERY, space opera, and cosmic horror. The November issue is accepting submissions now--all are welcome to submit! Past issues have included comics (if you can draw), pieces on the history of the genre, literary criticism, and short works of fiction.

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• Write a newsletter up to two pages long discussing any topics related to sword and sorcery, space opera, and cosmic horror.
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Does anyone have any info on #12? Did it ever even come out? I can’t really find any info on it

I have found sword-and-sorcery audiobooks unfortunately hard to find, so I figure that rather than asking for recommendations, it's better to try to compile a complete list. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

I am not trying to list every single audiobook by Robert E. Howard. Every original Conan yarn has been made into audio form multiple times as far as I can tell. Some versions are only legally available if you pay, but at least one version of every yarn is available in audio form for free on YouTube. I highly recommend The Cybrarian! You can also find every Kull, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn yarn published in REH's lifetime quite easily, and even some that were only published posthumously.

However, I am VERY MUCH interested in finding out what Conan audiobooks are available from pastiche authors. I believe the latest Scott Oden release from Titan Books is available on Audible. Please add to the list any others you might know about! Also looking for audiobooks of any other REH character pastiches.

For Michael Moorcock, there are a few free Elric audiobooks on YouTube and three tremendously long Elric omnibuses available on Audible that, from what I understand, contain ALMOST every Elric story he ever wrote. All six Corum books are available in superb works by Graphic Audio complete with a full voice cast, music, and sound effects. I have seen one Hawkmoon audiobook on YouTube and none anywhere else. I assume there must be at least the original set of four out there somewhere since it wouldn't make much sense to only put out one of those, but I have no idea how to find it. I would also be extremely grateful to learn of ANY other Michael Moorcock sword-and-sorcery audiobooks!

The complete works of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser are available on Audible and presumably elsewhere. They come in seven audiobooks matching the seven books that the series was edited into.

There is an omnibus audiobook of every Jirel of Joiry tale by C.L. Moore that I heard about from Oliver Brackenbury of New Edge S&S that I also highly recommend. I got it on Audible but I assume it's available elsewhere as well.

Before I learned that he became ill, Howard Andrew Jones had told me that Baen had told him they were planning on putting out Hanuvar in audiobook format, but that doesn't seem to have come to fruition yet.

And... that's pretty much it! This is why I am asking. It feels like there should be more sword-and-sorcery audiobooks out there, but if there are, I can't find them. I spent quite a bit of time looking for audiobooks of the Thongor series by Lin Carter and never found any. And I had the impression Thongor is pretty high up the sword-and-sorcery totem pole.

ANYTHING you could add to this list would be extremely helpful. Thanks everyone!

Here is my ranking of the original Conan The Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard. I did not include Hour Of The Dragon due to the unconventional nature of its writing. Feel free to give your thoughts on my ranking.

1. People of the black circle
2. Tower of the elephant
3. Red nails
4. Queen of the black coast
5. Beyond the black river
6. Rogues in the house
7. The devil in iron
8. The scarlet citadel
9. Iron shadows in the moon
10. Black colossus
11. Pool of the black one
12. Man eaters of zamboula
13. A witch shall be born
14. The black stranger
15. The slithering shadow
16. The phoenix in the sword
17. Vale of the lost women
18. The servants of Bit-Yakin
19. The frost giant’s daughter
20. The god in the bowl

Hi guys, I was wondering if anybody here could suggest a comic book font that can be used/purchased that is used in Sword and Sorcery comic books.

Thanks a lot!!

I want to read it, but I don't read for pleasure on screens--is it sized to be easy to print?