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Real Deal Jobo Sports Dyscrasia Fiction

Joe Bonadonna sporting Dyscrasia Fiction!

10yrs ago, friend and author Jobo called me "Real Deal"!  (Link below from his Black Gate review of my first novel).

You rock that shirt Jobo!

Lords of Dyscrasia 2015 Review

Seeking Revenge Against the Shades of the Dead: S.E. Lindberg’s Lords of Dyscrasia

Read (I mean listen) "Immolating Ember," a Dyscrasia Fiction® 

Savage Realms Monthly July 2025

A Collection of Dark Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Short Adventure Stories (Savage Realms Monthly Dark Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Adventure Magazine, Book 37)

Narrated by Moose Matson

• IMMOLATING EMBER by S.E. Lindberg
• RECRUITMENT DRIVE by Luke Tarassenko
• THE BLOOD DAGGER OF DILGARE CHAPTER 1, by  Richard Rubin

Quench Your Thirst for Savage Sword and Sorcery Action Adventure!

The masters of sword and sorcery fiction might be dead but just because Robert E. Howard is no longer penning Conan tales doesn't mean you have to go without your fix of axe-wielding barbarians, lusty wenches and evil wizards! Literary Rebel is proud to bring you a whole new crop of monthly fantasy fiction by talented new authors.

"The first issue does not disappoint!"

"Hack and slash goodness."

"Harkens back to the days of the pulp masters..."

Fans of Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, Clark Ashton Smith, and Karl Edward Wagner will love this new fantasy fiction adventure magazine.

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2025 Annual Norman OK Sortie - Adrian Simmons and Tom Barczak

My annual trip to the IASR Surfactant Consortium in Norman, Oklahoma, lets me connect with friends and authors there. 

Managed to meet the esteemed Adrian Simmons (one of the Heroic Fantasy Quarterly editors, author, and fellow Black Gate contributor). Super fun, spontaneous connection. Cheers to Adrian. Thanks for tracking me down.

And I got to present (brand? lol) fellow Perseid Press Heroes in Hell writer Tom Barczak with Dyscrasia Fiction swag!  Long live Valka! 

More Fans Donning Dyscrasia Fiction Swag

 More Fans Donning Dyscrasia Fiction Swag

 

As simulcast on Black Gate ....

August 3rd, we highlighted the first three stories of The Chain Story 2 – Sword and Sorcery. All these stand-alone stories are “chained” together with a common element (a common magical artifact represented in the logo), with different contributors showcasing their own characters/worlds. They can be read in any order, for free (at least for several months, many times indefinitely)!

Stories will be released every few weeks, so check the Chain Story website continuously!  This post highlights the next five!

• Shard of Song by Rigel Ailur
• Grave's Brood by S.E. Lindberg
• Fragment of a Sorcerous Crown  by Joan Marie Verba
• The Village of Morvoss by Thomas Grayfson
•  On Memories by Michael Stackpole

Clark Ashton Smith Conference - January 2026

 

Simulcast on Black Gate,9/30/2025: 

Clark Ashton Smith Conference - A Rendezvous in Smith's hometown, Auburn, California  

For many enthusiasts of pulp fiction, there is a rite of passage in which the reader stumbles into H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, or Clark Ashton Smith, and as they track down stories or read adjacent publications, they learn about the others and they were pen pals and shared numerous cross-over characters/ideas.  People usually discover Howard or Lovecraft first, and are often floored last by the poetic, cosmic madness of Smith. Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a poet at heart, also a sculptor and artist, and his approach to weird fiction was to introduce lyricism and literary depth. Indeed, he is a major reason I started interviewing authors on their take on "Beauty in Weird Fiction" in 2014, the series hosted by Black Gate since 2018. Check out the Eldritch Dark website for his fiction, nonfiction, and images of his drawings and sculptures.

He could not tell the duration of the weaving, the term of his enthrallment.  Dimly, at last, he beheld the thinning of the luminous threads, the retraction of the trembling arabesques.  The globe, a thing of evil beauty, alive and aware in some holocryptic fashion, had risen now from the empty armor of Yanur.  Diminishing to its former size, and putting off its colors of blood and opal, it hung for a little while above the chasm...

- From "Weaver in the Vault", a Zothique tale, CAS (1934)

So, it is with great pleasure that we spotlight a conference dedicated to Clark Ashton Smith, duly hosted in the author's hometown (Auburn, CA, to be held Jan 10th, 2026)! Read this to find out all the details, the amazing panelists, and get an inside perspective from the organizer about the origin of the event.