TALES FROM THE MAGICIAN'S SKULL

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK the Sword & Sorcery genre (or sub-genre as some prefer to put it) has been run through and left for dead on the battlefield, you may be surprised. As a matter of fact, there's a certain magician's skull that seems to be doing enough thinking to have had his own magazine for several issues now and carry on the S&S banner with all-new stories. As a matter of fact, S&S looks to be having somewhat of a resurgence of late, with a number of both fiction and non-fiction books covering the subject.

Published by Goodman Games (leave it to the gamers to keep the flame of S&S alive!) and edited by Howard Andrew Jones, TALES FROM THE MAGICIAN'S SKULL is now set to publish its fifth issue.

Here's the 411, ripped straight out of the magician's skull:

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Behold! I have fashioned a magazine like those from fabled days of yore. It overflows with thrilling adventures. There are swords, and there is sorcery. There are dark deeds and daring rescues. There are lands where heroes fear to tread. Dare you imagine it? Picture this as well — maps to wondrous and terrible places. Electrifying art for every tale. Guides to bring the terrors within to your own game table. All I lack are a few paltry shekels. Grant them to me, and I shall fling open a new portal to a world of ancient wonders! Join me, mortal dogs! Together we shall storm the gates of Valhalla!

Tales From The Magician’s Skull is a magazine of all-new swords & sorcery fiction. Issue #5 features cover art by Sanjulian, and stories by Adrian Cole, James Enge, John C. Hocking, Violette Malan, Adrian Simmons, and C.L. Werner. The magazine is edited by Howard Andrew Jones and published by Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games. Each story is lovingly illustrated by industry stalwarts, and issue #5 features art by Chris Arneson, Randy Broecker, Samuel Dillon, Jennell Jaquays, Doug Kovacs, Peter Mullen, and Russ Nicholson.

• Edited by: Howard Andrew Jones
• Interior Illustrations: Chris Arneson, Randy Broecker, Samuel Dillon, Jennell Jaquays, Doug Kovacs, Peter Mullen, and Russ Nicholson
• Cover Illustration: Sanjulian
• Format: Softcover + PDF

Check back here Sunday for a roundup of the first four issues of TALES FROM THE MAGICIAN'S SKULL!