For World Goth Day, Matthew Pungitore shares his appreciation of Gothic literature.

In honor of Ken Kelly’s birthday, I reminisced a little bit and posted a gallery drawn from his amazing body of artwork.

Cormac FitzGeoffrey is perhaps the most notable of all the protagonists that Robert E. Howard created in his ‘Crusader’ stories; tales written with a significant element of historical realism. Cormac is reminiscent of Conan: tall stature, tigerish strength, fierce blue eyes, jet-black hair…and a force of nature on the battlefield.

Fantasy literature can give you new sensations and images. Most of the stories mentioned here have a hallucinatory weirdness and a brooding atmosphere. This comes from not only the description of these buildings but their nature.

The aesthetics of architecture is interesting. The design, the shape, the decoration of buildings can produce strong feelings in a person. This is true even in fictional buildings. Perhaps more so in Sword and Sorcery and Weird Fiction which is overrun with strange, often decaying structures.

This June DMR Books will proudly present M. Stern’s first collection, Kingdoms Trembling. All twelve of the tales in this book take place at various locales in K’Zal and the surrounding lands, and all of them are previously unpublished.