Brian Murphy Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Brian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreJames Reasoner Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Jim Reasoner is a scholar of Robert E. Howard and the pulps. He has also written hundreds of novels in various pulpish genres, some of them bestsellers. Now, he’s weighed in on DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreCeltic Adventures: Available Now
The 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 MoreCeltic Adventures Coming in July
Next 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 MoreJim FitzPatrick's Beltaine Art
Beltaine and Samhain were the two main anchor-points of the Gaelic calendar. Jim FitzPatrick has created classic art over the years that illustrates events in Ireland associated with Beltaine.
Read MorePeter Beresford Ellis: Championing the Celts for 80 Years
Peter Beresford Ellis is one of the foremost popularizers of Celtic fiction and non-fiction of the last hundred years. In addition, he has authored biographies of H. Rider Haggard and Talbot Mundy.
Read MoreA. Merritt and the Irish
For Saint Patrick’s Day, I thought I’d look at how A. Merritt viewed Ireland and the Irish. A. Merritt's ancestors came from the southwest of England, but he had a sincere admiration for the Emerald Isle.
Read MoreA Voice from the Past - The Book of Taliesin
As someone who writes a great deal of heroic fantasy set in a Dark Age Britain (or an ‘early medieval’ Britain, as the scholars would have it now, but they have no ear for poetry) with the serial numbers filed off, it behoves me to have some idea of what those ages were actually like. Thankfully, I have the recently-published The Book of Taliesin.
Read MoreRed Bull Tries To Gore Jim FitzPatrick
Artist Jim Fitzpatrick created a logo for an Irish filmmaker. Now, the Red Bull corporation is trying to sue over infringement.
Read MorePalamides, Felimid and Arthurian Legends
I’m really pleased that DMR Books is publishing a short story of mine about Palamides, that Thracian horse soldier who first appeared in the yarn “Buried Silver.” I always thought he – and some others – should have main roles in more stories. Those “others” include a few more characters lifted from Arthurian legend.
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