When Frank Frazetta died fifteen years ago, the bloggers at the Cimmerian website joined forces to pay homage to the Master of Fantasy Art. Those essays still hold up.

Robert E. Howard stated that everything south of the River Styx was the “Stygian continent”.

In 2020 DMR Books made arrangements to reprint Manly Wade Wellman’s final novel, Cahena, bringing it back into print for the first time in nearly thirty-five years. The contract is expiring soon, and at the end of May it will once again be unavailable.

One of DMR Books’ most popular releases in recent years was Samhain Sorceries, a sword-and-sorcery anthology based around the pagan festival that was the precursor to Halloween. We’re going to follow that up with a companion volume entitled Walpurgis Witcheries.

With the release of Swords of Steel IV right around the corner, authors from the book (along with myself) have recently made some appearances on podcasts to discuss it.

Theosophy arose in the late 1800s and quickly spread throughout the Western world. Its doctrines and mythology fascinated everyone from political revolutionaries to pulp authors. Its influence is still felt today, after nearly one hundred and fifty years.