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.
Read MoreWeird 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMichael 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.
Read MoreWillard ‘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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNext 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreRobert E. Howard stated that everything south of the River Styx was the “Stygian continent”.
Read MoreIn 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.
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