Reviews of DMR's The Ship of Ishtar Across the Webz (Part Two)

DMR Books recently published the centennial edition of A. Merritt’s The Ship of Ishtar. James Maliszewski, proprietor of the Grognardia website is a Merritt stalwart, a champion of A. Merritt's work for over fifteen years. When the DMR Books edition was first released, Maliszewski posted not one, but two, blog entries concerning The Ship of Ishtar. I will not only be commenting on James' posts but also the commenters on his posts. Some of those comments are quite interesting.

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A. Merritt and The Ship of Ishtar

A. Merritt's landmark heroic fantasy novel, The Ship of Ishtar, still resonates a solid century after its first publication. Since that time, it has inspired classic tales from the likes of Robert E. Howard, Leigh Brackett and Michael Moorcock.

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(The Best of) Edmond Hamilton's Weird Tales Fiction

Edmond Hamilton wrote many stories of Merrittesque adventure for Weird Tales during the 1930s and 1940s. In my opinion, those stories are some of his finest, albeit lesser-known. Hamilton could write a gripping weird tale, though he became more famous for his straight-up science fiction, especially his space operas.

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Long-Awaited Collection of Manly Wade Wellman's Kardios Stories Coming Soon

In the late ‘70s legendary pulp fictioneer Manly Wade Wellman created a fantasy hero named Kardios, who was the last survivor of Atlantis. The five tales of Kardios Wellman penned appeared in anthologies such as Swords Against Darkness and Heroic Fantasy, which are long out of print. For decades sword and sorcery fans have clamored for all five stories to be reprinted in a single collection.

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