Brennus: The Nemesis of Rome
Brennus, the Celtic king of Senigallia, was the first man to sack Rome. It would be nearly eight hundred years before another invader matched that feat. His exploits inspired the writings of Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreThurian Age Maps and Me: Part One
Lancer Books published King Kull in 1967. Within its pages was the first map of Robert E. Howard’s Thurian Age, which epoch existed millennia before the Hyborian Age.
Read MoreBrian Murphy Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Brian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs: A Sesquicentennial Tribute--Some of His Obscure, But Cool, Novels
During the first decade of his literary career, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a man on fire, creating not just Tarzan and John Carter, but also many novels now (unjustly) forgotten. Toward the end of his life, with zero effs to give, ERB wrote some very interesting tales that one wouldn’t expect. Let’s look at a few of them.
Read MoreLovecraft at 135: Yeah, He Won
H.P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890. By 1925, his impact on horror literature was seismic. Today, the ‘Lovecraftian lens’ is the paradigm through which most horror fiction is viewed—and written—today. Heroic fantasy follows many of the same rules.
Read MoreJames Reasoner Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Jim Reasoner is a scholar of Robert E. Howard and the pulps. He has also written hundreds of novels in various pulpish genres, some of them bestsellers. Now, he’s weighed in on DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreAtmosphere in Sword and Sorcery and Weird Fiction
Weird fiction is essentially about creating a mood. The mood in Lovecraft’s fiction is a kind of fear bordering on the sublime. Perhaps of all Sword and Sorcery authors C. L. Moore did strange atmosphere best.
Read MoreCeltic Adventures: Available Now
The stories in this collection, inspired by the rich history and folklore of Ireland and Scotland, run the gamut from purely historical to the fantastic to the weirdly horrific, with some combining elements of all three genres.
Read MoreWill Oliver's Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
Willard ‘Will’ Oliver’s Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author has been out for a couple of months now. I have read it. It is excellent.
Read MoreCeltic Adventures Coming in July
Next month DMR Books will release Celtic Adventures, a collection of overlooked stories from the pulp and pre-pulp eras. The tales in this collection all take place in either Ireland or Scotland, and run the gamut from purely historical to the fantastic to the weirdly horrific.
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