Richard L. Tierney

Richard L. Tierney lives in Iowa, USA. He has a degree in entomology from Iowa State University and worked with the U. S. Forestry Service for many years. He has written over two hundred poems. His evocative poetry publications include Dreams and Damnations (1975); The Doom Prophet and One Other (1976); Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions (1981); The Blob That Gobbled Abdul and Other Poems and Songs (2000, rpt 2002); and Savage Menace and Other Poems (2010, Second Expanded Edition 2021). He was nominated for Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master for poetry in 2010. As a fiction writer of weird literature, his books include Tigers of the Sea and Hawks of Outremer (with Robert E. Howard, 1974, 1979); The Winds of Zarr (1975); For the Witch of the Mists (with David C. Smith, 1978); a series of six Red Sonja novels (with David C. Smith, 1981-83); The House of the Toad (1993); The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones (1997); The Gardens of Lucullus (with Glenn Rahman, 2001); The Drums of Chaos (2008); Sorcery Against Caesar (2020); and Path of the Dragon (with Glenn Rahman, forthcoming). He has written thirty-seven short stories of Lovecraftian and Howardian fantasy, horror, heroism, and the supernatural, fourteen of which are included in The Scroll of Thoth.