Despite of Day and Night and Death and Hell: The 2021 Guest Bloggerama

January 30, 2021 Deuce Richardson

“Boldly they wrote and well,

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell

Wrote the nineteen bloggers.”

(with apologies to Lord Tennyson)

With the posting of Robert Barr’s “Carcosa: Short-Lived, But Legendary” essay, the 2021 DMR Guest Bloggerama drew to a close. Three years in, I have to say that this thing is still a lot of fun. For me, it’s always cool to see what someone who normally doesn’t blog much has to say. The same goes for those blogging out of their ‘comfort zone’, in one way or another.

We now have a solid cadre of three-peaters, the thrice-born and thrice-blooded, who have stepped into the breach every time since our very first Bloggerama in 2019. That killer elite is comprised of Brian Murphy, Daniel J. Davis, Chris L. Adams, Al Harron and Robert M. Price.

Several others came back to the wolf-pack for their second tour, while new recruits—albeit many were scarred veterans from other battlefields of the Blogosphere—blooded their steel in the DMR shield-wall for the very first time. All wrought bravely and well. I look forward to seeing their return in 2022—if not sooner. I would also not bet against seeing some wayward sword-brothers from past Bloggeramas making an appearance a year hence. As it is written: The Ride Never Ends.

The last twelve months have been trying times. Yet, many came together—despite night and death and hell—to make this 2021 Bloggerama another hard-fought success. I tip my horned helm and mead-horn to one and all. Y’all are my brothers, be ye never so vile.

For those DMR Blog readers who might have missed out on some of the posts, you will find below the Roll Call of Honor. Every guest blogger is listed—with hyperlinks to each post—from first to last.

Adrian Cole -- Off on a Grim, Dark Road: An Omaran Genesis

John R. Fultz — The Weird Genius of Tanith Lee’s “The Sombrus Tower”

Ken Lizzi — James Branch Cabell, America's Forgotten Fantasist (Or, Don't Merely Dabble in Cabell)

Kola Krauze — Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris: Proto-Sword-and-Sorcery?

Brian Murphy — Boris Vallejo at 80

Harry Piper —Monks, Maps, Monsters and Fairy Tales

M.C. Tuggle — Jack London: Blood and Redemption

Chris L. Adams — Collecting Clark Ashton Smith

Howard Andrew Jones — An Ode to Amber

Christopher Conlon — Writing With the Dead: Lighting Poe’s Lighthouse

Daniel J. Davis — The Flame Even the Gods May Not Destroy: A. Merritt and The Ship of Ishtar

Doug Ellis — Sailing the Seas of Fantasy on “The Ship of Ishtar”