Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B.There’s a lot of variety, it’s just a matter of knowing when to cycle one style out for another, while keeping the hard-boiled swagger and atmospherics on point.The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP I have an idea for the next one after that, which shapes up a bit more like a ‘Fantasy Horror’. The next, which I’m writing now, is more Noir/Serial Killer mystery. The first ‘Fantasy Noir’ story… was a bit more of a Crime Story.

Given that The Shadow Magazine ran for 20 years and over 300 issues, and is still being ripped off with some regularity today, I’d say that worked out.

And he would rotate through them, to keep the variety going so no one ever got bored. One would be a Murder Mystery, one a Supervillain tale, one a globetrotting adventure, another a gangster story, etc. Gibson said of writing the Shadow stories that he had a file of different ‘types’ of stories. Cover art by Dominus.ĭARK HERALD: Where do you see your Nightvale series heading from here? Source: Nightvale Book II: Death Mask (2022), Nightvale Novels. When I thumbnailed out the original sketch of the cover and gave it to the cover artist, I sent along examples of those Jeffrey Jones covers to give an idea of what I was going for. There was something more expressionistic and elegant about Jones’s work. I was never a big Frazetta guy, but I get why everyone likes him. But of the Fantasy guys, Jeffrey Jones’s Fafhrd and Grey Mouser covers are incredible. I love the Shadow covers of Graves Gladney, for example, and detective stories are in much heavier rotation in my reading list than Sword & Sorcery. RAZÖRFIST: My favorite pulp covers are likely not even from the Fantasy genre. Do you have any favorite artists from the era and what was it about their work that impressed you? When you look at it, you know what the book is going to be like. RELATED: Producer Fredrik Malmberg Provides Update On Solomon Kane And Conan The Barbarian TV SeriesĭARK HERALD: Cover art is inextricably tied to the pulp genre. 1 #44 “Of Flame and the Fiend!” (1974), Marvel Comics.

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