The acclaimed Spanish artist, Manuel Pérez Clemente—known to the world as Sanjulián—died yesterday at the venerable age of eighty-five. From the start of his career, horror and dark fantasy was an integral part of his body of work. His covers for magazines like Creepy and Eerie are considered classics and he continued to create paintings with darksome themes almost until his final day.
Read MoreEdgar Allan Poe inspired a long line of truly gifted artists who have brought his visions to graphic life, starting with the mighty Gustave Doré. After that, everyone from Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac to Bernie Wrightson and Richard Corben brought their own unique takes to Poe’s classic tales.
Read MoreWhile Michael Wm. Kaluta is well-known for his Sword-and-Sorcery and Sword & Planet art, his artistic roots run deep into the darksome realms of the weird. Some of his earliest work was in horror comics and he continues to produce art delving into the uncanny in the twenty-first century.
Read MoreJean Ray, known as the Belgian Poe, was born today in 1887. I have written about Ray before, particularly in my essay, The Weird Fiction of Jean Ray. This essay contains a short biography and reviews of Ray’s works that were available in English at the time. Since then Wakefield press has released two more works by Ray, The Great Nocturnal and Circles of Dread, and plans to release more.
Read MoreHorror author, Graham Masterton, turned seventy-five today. With nearly one hundred novels under his belt and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers' Association on his mantel, Mr. Masterton can look back on quite the career.
Read MoreKarl Edward Wagner was born on this date seventy-five years ago. By the age of thirty, he was making waves in both the genres of Horror and of Sword and Sorcery. At the time of his untimely death in 1994, he was already a legend.
Read MoreIn the second part of Matthew Ilseman’s exploration of horror stories set at sea, he reviews tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and Jean Ray.
Read MoreSince the beginning of time the sea has inspired fear. It covers most of the earth and what lies beneath it we may never truly know. Anything can reside beneath the waves. This series of posts will look at horror stories set on or around the sea by many authors.
Read More‘Tis the Witching Season and it seems apropos to run a post on Frank Frazetta’s macabre artwork here at the DMR Blog. Frank is, of course, known for his brawny barbarians and bodacious babes, but he had an iron in the horror fire starting in the early-mid 1960s, before he was doing actual Sword and Sorcery art.
Read MoreKarl Edward Wagner will probably be best remembered as the creator of the hero-villain Kane, but he always considered himself a horror writer. Even when he was writing heroic fantasy, Karl’s Kane tales were horror at heart.
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