This is, quite frankly, a terrible biography. After you wade through all the psychoanalysis, and silly gossip, rumors, and tall-tales about Howard, what do you have left? Not much. Unfortunately, since around 1962 to about the middle of the 90s, the ideas from de Camp's works (including this biog...
This omnibus volume brings all five of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Compleat Enchanter" tales together in one nearly 500 page volume -- a good thing or bad thing depending on one's perspective, since each one of them is short, and really, light enough, to tempt one towards perusing on...
More bad writing from De Camp and Carter. Chronologically, Conan The Buccaneer takes place before Conan Of The Isles, but was written after. This one is marginally better than Conan Of The Isles but still pretty rough. At least there’s no scuba gear.That’s all I’m going to say about the story....
I consider this a minor classic of S&S and one of de Camp's more accomplished solo works (most of his well-known stuff was written in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt). Unlike his Conan pastiches, which while readable could hardly be considered much more than vaguely inspired hackwork, The Trito...
Welcome to Gavagan's Bar (rhymes with "pagan") where it's always 1953, the bartender is Irish, and the drinks are never watered down! Where you can rub elbows with mad inventors, dark wizards, and ancient gods masquerading as ordinary schlubs.The Gavagan's Bar stories were written by L. Sprague d...
L. Sprague De Camp is famous for his numerous light fantasy novels. They are sort of the potato chips of fantasy lit, tasty but not particularly filling. This is one of his lesser works. It is told from the viewpoint of a "fiend" summoned to an Conan-esque world. The gimmick is that fiends aren't...