Legendary Figures in the TVCU: King Arthur
Updated to incorporate material from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia. This is another in a series of blogs I will do in covering legendary figures whose place in history has become a merging of fact and fiction. Of course in this case, the fiction is the fact in at least the case of the TVCU appearances. c. 1279 B.C.--HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS--Merlin sends Arthur back in time to learn and train from Hercules. TIGERS OF THE SEA “THE TEMPLE OF ABOMINATION” (STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD AND RICHARD L. TIERNEY) Release Date: 1975 (Setting is the late 480s A.D.) Series: Cormac Mac Art Horror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos Non-Horror Crosses: Kull; King Arthur The Story: Cormac Mac Art battles an evil druid and the last of the Serpent Men. Notes: The druid’s magic is tied to the Lovecraftian Mythos. The Serpent Men originate from the first Kull story. Though King Arthur was real, he likely has a Horror Universe counterpart whose canon should only be those ...