Struggling through the scorching summer heat can be a draining ordeal. When you’re baking in the hot sun, you’re desperately longing for the one thing that can revive you—a nice, cool, refreshing dose of sword-and-sorcery! Fortunately, your friends at DMR Books have you covered this summer.
Read MoreCyber Monday is winding down. It got me to thinking about what DMR Books—and Friends of the DMR Blog—have to offer this Yuletide season. Plenty, as it turns out.
Read MoreTwenty-five years after its original publication, Ramsey Campbell’s fantasy collection Far Away & Never will return to print next month.
Read MoreDMR Books has acquired reprint rights to the dark swords and sorcery collection Far Away and Never by Ramsey Campbell. The agent was John Jarrold. The collection, originally published 25 years ago by Necronomicon Press, contains all of Campbell’s stories of Ryre which appeared in the Swords Against Darkness anthologies.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons has become a household name. It is firmly embedded in our pop culture. Whether you have played the game or not, you are aware of it. Within its pages, co-creator Gary Gygax shared a list of stories that inspired him. This list is known as Appendix N.
Read MoreAuthor Ramsey Campbell turned seventy-five today. One of the most honored horror authors on the planet, Ramsey has received three Bram Stoker Awards, four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Before taking the horror genre by storm, however, Campbell wrote some bloody tales of darksome sword and sorcery back in the '70s.
Read MoreMachen’s influence upon REH is patent. Yarns like “Worms of the Earth” would not exist without the fiction of Arthur Machen. Clark Ashton Smith, the other co-founder of Sword and Sorcery was also a huge Machen fan, citing “The White Powder” as one of his ten favorite weird tales.
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