P. Alexander - The DMR Interview
Matthew Pungitore talks to Cirsova Magazine editor Alex about Italian cinema, sword and sorcery, and the Decadent movement.
Read MoreAdventure in All Its forms – A Review of Cirsova Magazine's Spring 2023 Issue
The first Cirsova Magazine of 2023 does not disappoint. It’s full of wonderfully weird stories. Please be aware that there are some very minor spoilers in the reviews that follow.
Read MoreREVIEW: Cirsova Magazine Summer Issue 2022
Brazen imagination. If there’s a succinct summing-up of this issue of Cirsova Magazine, it’s those two words. There are some outrageously imaginative pulp stories in this issue.
Read MoreCirsova Issue Nine, Winter 2021 - A Full Review
The latest issue of Cirsova Magazine was published on the 15th December. It’s a long review because there are a lot of stories to cover. If you want a shorter review, I would just say “Great stories, buy it.” But if you want the luxury tour, it’s all here in black and white.
Read MoreA Few More Yuletide Gifting Thoughts...
The “Gifts for Yuletide 2021” blog entry needed to go up when it did and that’s what happened. However, there were plenty of worthies left out—as I admitted at the end of it. I’ve decided that those omissions shall not stand, so here’s the supplementary post.
Read MoreImportant New Releases for June 2021
These days there are so many new books coming out in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and adventure that it’s hard to keep track of them all! Let’s take a look at some that have been released this month.
Read MoreReview: The Cosmic Courtship by Julian Hawthorne
There is a unique thrill in being able to read a work of fiction that few alive today have read. The Cosmic Courtship was written by Julian Hawthorne; the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published in All Story Weekly over four issues in the latter part of 1917, never to see print again; essentially making this story very rare and expensive to collect. Cirsova Publishing seeks to remedy that.
Read MoreCover Reveal: The Eye of Sounnu by Schuyler Hernstrom
The next DMR Books release is The Eye of Sounnu, the long-awaited collection of Schuyler Hernstrom’s stories from Cirsova magazine. Today we reveal the incredible cover by Brian LeBlanc.
Read MoreCollecting Merritt: Famous Fantastic Mysteries & Other Cool Mags
Pulp magazines are just plain awesome. Those periodicals were important stepping stones for many authors in the fields I best love--science fiction, sword and sorcery, horror. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edmond Hamilton, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith… and one of the guys I most enjoy collecting--A. Merritt.
Read MoreMichael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part Two
Michael Tierney opened his first comic book store in 1982, but Mike is far from being a simple retailer. As an Alderman, Mike has been a crusader for justice and a force for change in his city, and sometimes-illustrator and publisher of his series of comics and novels, The Wild Stars. It would take a fleet, six-man Barsoomian flyer full of two-headed aliens to wear as many hats as Mike Tierney, and keep a mad, Kaldane hatter in business to do so.
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