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.

Next month DMR Books will release Celtic Adventures, a collection of overlooked stories from the pulp and pre-pulp eras. The tales in this collection all take place in either Ireland or Scotland, and run the gamut from purely historical to the fantastic to the weirdly horrific.

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”.