Do you enjoy hall burnings, ship-to-ship combat on the high seas, murderous shield walls, and the terrifying torture known as the Blood Eagle? A man’s head ripped off by brute force during a 1:1 duel? I do, and you’ll find all that in Swain’s Vengeance.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreThe second collection of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s tales of Swain the Viking is now available from DMR Books. Swain’s Chase collects the thrilling title novel as well as two novellas: “Swain’s Venture” and “Swain’s Payment,” all of which appeared in the classic pulp magazine Adventure in the 1920s.
Read MoreGlenn Rahman’s collection A Feast of Ambrosia was scheduled to be released next month, but unfortunately it must be postponed. To fill the gap in the schedule for January, we’ll release Swain’s Chase, the second volume in The Saga of Swain the Viking by Arthur D. Howden Smith.
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 MoreDMR Books is proud to announce that we have acquired the rights to reprint the entirety of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s stories of Swain the Viking. For years pulp fans have clamored for a complete collection of Swain’s saga, and now it shall finally come to pass!
Read MoreOld Norse literature undoubtedly served as a model for the eventual sword-and-sorcery tales of Kull and Conan. Saga and Norse myth inform sword-and-sorcery more than the more popular Greek and Roman myths, with their warm climates and heroes hailing from civilized lands.
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 MoreHowden Smith is a rare name to mention this era and it's a damn shame because he was one of the stars of Adventure and chances are his work influenced Robert E. Howard himself.
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