Five years ago DMR Books published The Great Die Slow and Other Tales of Dark Adventure by the Welsh author Harry Piper. The contract is expiring at the end of July, so the book will only be available for two more weeks.

Weird fiction is essentially about creating a mood. The mood in Lovecraft’s fiction is a kind of fear bordering on the sublime. Perhaps of all Sword and Sorcery authors C. L. Moore did strange atmosphere best.

The stories in this collection, inspired by the rich history and folklore of Ireland and Scotland, run the gamut from purely historical to the fantastic to the weirdly horrific, with some combining elements of all three genres.

Michael Whelan is one of the greatest SFF/Horror artists to have ever brushed paint upon canvas. Since today is his seventy-fifth birthday, it is only fitting to take a look at his six-decade career of excellence.

Willard ‘Will’ Oliver’s Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author has been out for a couple of months now. I have read it. It is excellent.

The merits of Lin Carter’s fiction can be argued, but it is difficult to deny that he had an outsized, positive impact on fantasy literature as an editor.