Insights, tips, and writing advice from our editors on the fantasy genre.
Yul Brynner’s Black Hat Considering good vs. evil in fantasy fiction
Bad guys and black hats are, in the classic American Western film, almost synonymous.
Even if you haven’t seen many Westerns, you’ve probably absorbed this knowledge via cultural osmosis—I certainly had.
Fortunately, the first Western I was privileged to watch was The Magnificent Seven (if a cowboy movie based on […]