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Black Gate – Adventures in Fantasy Literature
Courtship Rite (Timescape Books, July 1982). Cover by Rowena Morrill
Noe took her strange Liethe in a comforting embrace. “Some of us make our Contribution to the Race through Death, and others of us ...
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About Black Gate – Black Gate
Black Gate
Black Gate was founded in 2000, and is one of today’s leading fantasy magazines. We welcome many brands of speculative fiction, and actively seek a kind of story we feel is often neglected ...
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New Treasures – Black Gate
Lord of a Shattered Land (Baen Books, August 1, 2023). Cover Art by Dave Seeley
From the beginning, Sword and Sorcery has been an existentialist literature of the outsider. The rogue, the mercenary, t...
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Series Fantasy – Black Gate
Today in Talking Tolkien, it’s a long-term project I work on every so often. The story of the Nauglamir (The Necklace of the Dwarves) may well be my favorite story in all of The Legendarium. It was th...
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Fiction – Black Gate
In January 2022,
Black Gate spotlighted
Rogues in the House Sword & Sorcery podcast covering the folks/rogues behind the show and highlighted episodes (Go Rogues! link). In that post, we shared thei...
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Comics – Black Gate
Cover A: Martin Simmonds, Cover B: Joshua Middleton
I’ve written in the past about how my Goth Chick origins can be traced back to clandestine viewings of classic monster movies on the local cable acc...