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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThis 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the tales in this book take place at various locales in K’Zal and the surrounding lands, and all of them are previously unpublished.
Read MoreRobert E. Howard wrote a great deal about the rise and fall of empires. John Glubb, a formidable soldier and historian, wrote a book called The Fate of Empires which aligns with many of Howard’s themes and attitudes.
Read MoreEarlier this week four authors in the Walpurgis Witcheries anthology convened at the Monsters, Madness & Magic podcast to discuss the upcoming book and sword-and-sorcery fiction in general.
Read MoreRecently we announced our new sword-and-sorcery anthology Walpurgis Witcheries, to be released on April 30. The nine stories contained in this book should satisfy every afficionado of fantasy adventure and horror. But for those who still crave more, we’ve got a special supplementary release in store for you: Two Tales of Witchery!
Read MoreGil Kane was a titanic force in comics during the 1960s and 1970s, and he kept on creating cool comic art almost until his death in the year 2000. Mr. Kane was known for being a fan of the pulps. He played a special role in my own Sword-and-Sorcery journey.
Read MoreLee Breakiron, on top of being a great guy with the coolest name ever, was also one of the finest Howardian scholars out there. His contributions to the Robert E. Howard United Press Association and to the Robert E. Howard Foundation were invaluable. He died on March 29, 2026.
Read MoreIn 2022, DMR Books released Samhain Sorceries, a collection of sword-and-sorcery tales set on All Hallows’ Eve. As it proved to be one of our most popular anthologies, we decided it was time for a new seasonal foray into might and magic: Walpurgis Witcheries!
Read More“The Omega Glory” remains one of the strangest Star Trek episodes from the Original Series. Believe it or not, there are strong ties between it and a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs four decades earlier.
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