Fantasy History

Red Sonja: The Last Ember of Sword & Sorcery’s Golden Age

By 1985, the fires of Sword & Sorcery cinema were already beginning to cool. Just three years earlier, Conan the […]

For a long time, pulp adventure fiction was treated like a relic. Too rough. Too strange. Too violent. Too simple.

Here is a deep dive into the history of Sword & Sorcery, and how the genre evolved from pulp roots

This is where fantasy in heavy metal intersects most powerfully with sword and sorcery… Before fantasy returned to the mainstream

Among the many branches of fantasy literature, few genres possess the raw power and primal spirit of Sword & Sorcery.

Inferno Books / February 17, 2026

When Conan the Barbarian thundered into theatres in 1982, nothing like it had ever existed. Not in fantasy cinema. Not