In the Shadow of Sir Richard Burton

June 1st marks the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Sax Rohmer. DMR Books recently marked the bicentennial of Sir Richard Burton’s birth. Rohmer counted Burton’s multi-volume translation of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights as one of the key influences in shaping both his writing and his lifelong interests.

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Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Sax Rohmer

Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber and Karl Edward Wagner. If Sax Rohmer’s influence upon those S&S titans isn’t enough to rank him as a Forefather, then hardly anybody else rates the honor, either.

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