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November 1, 2023
Korak at the Earth's Core - Book 1 of the Dead Moon Super-Arc - NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!
Korak is back in his first novel-length adventure since 1916’s The Son of Tarzan
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (Tarzana, California) A brand-new Super-Arc in the groundbreaking
Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series
launches with
Korak at the Earth’s Core by Win Scott Eckert
! All three novels of the Dead Moon Super-Arc will be written by Eckert and encompass an epic, interconnected saga featuring the daring family members of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary Lord of the Jungle in the savage inner world of Pellucidar.Preorders of Korak at the Earth’s Core may now be placed directly from ERB, Inc. Softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a limited Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate, will be available in a simultaneous release. Korak at the Earth’s Core features gorgeous wraparound cover art by the renowned artist E. M. Gist.
The novel is expected to ship to customers in February 2024.
The Dead Moon Super-Arc Begins...
Korak the Killer, jungle-raised son of Tarzan of the Apes, sets off into the wilds of the prehistoric world at the Earth’s core to rescue his daughter Suzanne Clayton, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow. But when the airship O-220 is hijacked, Korak and his Mangani friend Akut are stranded and must fight their way across the perilous lands and seas of Pellucidar. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Korak’s mate Meriem, also racing to save Suzanne, risks everything in a perilous gambit to quickly reach the inner world.
And what of the enigmatic Dead Moon, the pendant world that hangs eternally above the Land of Awful Shadow and is taboo to the Stone Age peoples of Pellucidar? Will the Dead World give up its secrets as Korak and Meriem search for Suzanne—or will it spell their doom?
Bonus Novelette:
“Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer” by Christopher Paul Carey
When citizens on the far frontier of the Federated Kingdoms of Pellucidar begin to go missing, a lone warrior with nothing left to lose sets off to investigate. But the dark secret he finds lying in the Charnel Caves beneath the Forest of Death will lay bare the past he seeks to escape and awaken that for which he could never be prepared.
July 25, 2023
KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE - Book One of the Dead Moon Super-Arc (2023 update)
San Diego ComicCon 2023... and the Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. panel held on Friday, July 22, 2023, displayed this teaser slide for....
Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!
Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, cover artist E.M. Gist, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Book One will be announced for pre-order in a couple of months (as of the date of this writing, July 25, 2023) from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.
The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR:
Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR: LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter), Korak's grandson (a new character), and a major new Waziri characterBook Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and JaneSign up for the Edgar Rice Burroughs email newsletter (top right corner of main page on www.edgarriceburroughs.com) to keep up with the latest release information!In the early 1970s, Tarzan’s jungle-raised son Korak sets of into the wilds of Pellucidar (the hollow earth that Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series) to rescue his daughter Suzanne, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow.
July 23, 2022
KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE - Book One of the Dead Moon Super-Arc
It's official! Announced at San Diego ComicCon 2022!
Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!
I'm so excited to be writing this trilogy! Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Book One is coming out next year from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.
The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR, and will send Tarzan’s son Korak to the inner world at the Earth’s core, a land Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series.
Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR; LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter) and a major new Waziri characterBook Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and JaneSign up for the Edgar Rice Burroughs email newsletter (top right corner of main page on www.edgarriceburroughs.com) to keep up with the latest release information!
May 16, 2022
Tarzan and the Forest of Stone by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Disclaimer: I was given an uncorrected advance proof of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Jeffrey J. Mariotte enters the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe with a six-gun bang! Mariotte accurately captures Tarzan’s discomfort—and amusement—at 1930s Los Angeles “civilization,” and when danger rears its head, the Lord of the Jungle doesn’t hesitate to dive in headfirst—headfirst into the Arizona desert, an environment markedly different from the lush jungles to which the ape-man is accustomed.
Using equally his wits, brawn, natural instinct for survival, and ability to commune with nature and nature’s creatures, Tarzan roars to the rescue in what is essentially a Western. A Western replete with a lost city, Indigenous Peoples’ mysticism, and train-robber bandits-cum-gangsters. Burroughs was no stranger to Westerns and it’s nice to see Tarzan and the Western motifs blended so seamlessly.
Add to that, the tale is set squarely in continuity (aka the “expanded canon” which is the trademark of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series), taking place immediately after Lord Greystoke’s visit to Hollywood at the tail end of TARZAN AND THE LION MAN, and readers are given a delightful lagniappe when Tarzan visits Burroughs himself at the Tarzana Ranch…all in all a fantastic 5-star read!
Order TARZAN AND THE FOREST OF STONE directly from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
May 1, 2022
The Monster on Hold
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There was a Door to which I found no Key:There was a Veil past which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE
There seemed—and then no more of THEE and ME.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald
What seems Up may be Down.
Escape from Loki
Philip José Farmer
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April 30, 2022
RIP artist Neal Adams
RIP artist Neal Adams. Among his incredible body of work, I best loved his 12 covers for the 1970s-80s Ballantine editions of the Tarzan novels.
Safe Journey, sir, and thank you for the wonderful imagery you shared with the world.
April 28, 2022
FarmerFan - a new fanzine dedicated to Philip Jos�� Farmer
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April is Tarzan Month!
April is Tarzan Month with the arrival of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library, Tarzan volumes 13-16, with gorgeous covers by Joe Jusko, and the just-delivered and totally awesome Tarzan and Jane figures from Boss Fight Studios!
Tarzan at the Earth's CoreTarzan the InvincibleTarzan TriumphantTarzan and the City of Gold
