“I was born a Welshman. You’ve got a red dragon for a banner, you’re surrounded by a fairy-tale landscape and our national hero was a medieval warrior-king who claimed the mantle of prophecy. I was either going to write fantasy or grim social realism – I had no choice in the matter.”
Read MoreDMR Books has a Halloween treat in store for fans of both horror and fantasy: the new anthology Samhain Sorceries! In these haunting tales of swords and sorcery, the dead will rise, dark rituals will be performed, and gateways to the afterworld will open.
Read MoreYou’ve seen Lauren Gornik’s art on the covers of quite a few releases from DMR Books, the most recent being the anthology Terra Incognita. With Terra Incognita out now, I thought it would be a good time to talk to Lauren about her artistic processes and influences.
Read MoreThe next DMR Books release, The Great Die Slow and Other Tales of Dark Adventure, is a collection of stories by Welsh author Harry Piper. Set in a Dark Age Celtic landscape shrouded in myth and legend, the seven dark, often tragic, tales contained in The Great Die Slow tell stories of ordinary men and women confronted by evil both human and inhuman.
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