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 MoreJim 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 MoreWeird 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 MoreThe 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 MoreWillard ‘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 MoreNext 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.
Read MoreRobert E. Howard stated that everything south of the River Styx was the “Stygian continent”.
Read MoreTheosophy arose in the late 1800s and quickly spread throughout the Western world. Its doctrines and mythology fascinated everyone from political revolutionaries to pulp authors. Its influence is still felt today, after nearly one hundred and fifty years.
Read MoreStephen Fabian has illustrated everyone from Robert E. Howard to Fritz Leiber to Jack Vance to Gene Wolfe, creating art for publishers such as Arkham House, Donald M. Grant and TSR. In 2006, Mr. Fabian received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. He is, without a doubt, a living legend of fantasy art.
Read MoreRobert Ardrey wrote for Broadway. Robert E. Howard wrote for the pulps. Both perceived the bloody savage lurking beneath the veneer of civilization.
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