Here you will find reviews of new and classic stories, articles, and points of interest by various DMR contributors. Have something you'd like to share? Contact us to be considered.
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Here you will find reviews of new and classic stories, articles, and points of interest by various DMR contributors. Have something you'd like to share? Contact us to be considered.
The birthday of the mighty Jim Steranko has rolled around again. A living legend of pop culture, I’ve written previously about Mr. Steranko. This time, I’m gonna look specifically at Jim’s awesome legacy of Sword-and-Sorcery/S&S-adjacent art.
It is hard to say why certain authors are remembered and others are forgotten. There are also writers who aren’t well known that I believe deserve more respect. One such case is that of Weird Tales writer Allison V. Harding.
A. Merritt helped create and define the 'adventurer archaeologist' trope. Without his influence, we might not have the likes of Indiana Jones, Dirk Pitt or Lara Croft.
The one-hundredth and seventy-fifth anniversary of the day when—in the lonesome October—Edgar Allan Poe mysteriously passed beyond this mortal coil, came and went a few days ago. The anniversary of such a literary titan shall not go unrecognized, albeit belatedly.
On November 8, 1924, The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt hit the stands. Drenched in blood, sex and the supernatural, nothing like it had ever seen print before in American popular culture. On November 8, 2024, DMR Books will release a special Centennial Edition of Merritt’s classic proto-sword-and-sorcery novel.
Good news for lovers of audiobooks: An audio version of my story “The Necromancer and the Forgotten Hero” is now available!