In this collection, Swain Olaf’s son finally crosses swords with the one man who ever defied him and escaped with his life: The murderer Olvir Rosta. The bitterest blood-feud the North has ever seen will come to an end—but who will survive?
Read MoreSwain the Viking returns once more! DMR Books has already reprinted two volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s critically acclaimed but hard to find historical adventure series, and the third shall appear in early April.
Read MoreFans of pulp adventure rejoice! Next month will see the release of Swain’s Vengeance, the first of four volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s rousing saga of Swain the Viking. The stories of Swain, which were based on the Orkneyinga saga, appeared in the pages of Adventure magazine in the early 20th century. With few exceptions, these tales have gone unreprinted since then.
Read MoreArthur Gilchrist Brodeur loved the ‘Northern Thing’, writing pulp tales of the North while also translating The Prose Edda.
Read MoreArthur D. Howden Smith was one of the star authors for Adventure Magazine alongside Harold Lamb and Talbot Mundy. Smith died in near obscurity on December 18, 1945. He deserved better than that.
Read More“The bears poured over the knoll and flung themselves upon the soldiers. They were brave men, those Mercians, and made a bold stand, slaying many of their savage foes, but the beasts were two to one and they had no chance against them.”
Read MoreToday would’ve been the one hundred and fifteenth birthday of Walter Baumhofer, one of the greatest artists to paint a pulp cover. His career spanned most of the Golden Age of the Pulps and beyond.
Read MoreA son is born, in the American state of Indiana, to a Scottish anthropologist and his wife during the late 1800s. The boy goes on to spend his youth and young manhood in Africa, the Himalayas and Europe both before and during the World War One era. Soon after, he explores the native cultures of tropical South America. During World War Two, he helps the Allies to fight Rommel’s forces in North Africa. This same man also went in search of the lost Ark of the Covenant.
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