The DMRtian Chronicles, 8/19/2018
Elric! Conan! Frazetta! All this and more in this week’s roundup of items of interest from around the web.
Read MoreRaise a Glass of Atlantean Vintage
Whoa! It has been a hectic summer here in the wilds of Essi-Keh and the anniversary of Clark Ashton Smith's mortality nearly slipped by me. Considering that Klarkash-Ton is our Dread Editor's favorite author (along with A. Merritt) and one of my own personal literary deities, this date could not go unremarked.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/12/2018
Reviews of the latest and best sword-and-sorcery fiction and more.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/2/2018
Merritt, Burroughs, barbarians, and more.
Read MoreRoy G. Krenkel: A Centennial Remembrance, Part One
Roy G. Krenkel would have turned one hundred on July 11. I was quite busy with real world issues at that point, but I figured that someone out there somewhere would do a substantial centennial write-up. The other day I performed a fairly rigorous internet search and found nothing, more or less. I resolved to do my own write-up…
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles - 7/29/2018
Items of interest from around the web.
Read MoreQuick Reviews: The Weirwoods by Thomas Burnett Swann
In the days when Rome was young, a forest populated by fantastic creatures stood near the Etruscan city of Sutrium. Lars Velcha, a nobleman of Sutrium, abducts a Water Sprite named Vel for his daughter Tanaquil to use as a slave. Tanaquil and Vel befriend Arnth, a wandering minstrel, and together contrive a plan to free the Water Sprite.
Read MoreQuick Reviews: Swordsmen and Supermen
“A most unusual volume of swashbuckling high adventure stories with a heavy accent on the fantastic” promises the back cover.
Read MoreAnnouncement: Summer Sale
For one week only, everything (yes, everything) in our store is on sale!
Read MoreForefathers of Sword and Sorcery: H. Rider Haggard
Haggard stands at the fountainhead and nexus of what I call "exotic adventure fiction." Such fiction moves beyond the sort of stories told up until that time--adventures of pirates, cowboys, swashbucklers, explorers and whatnot-- and adds something extra, something over the top, something truly exotic.
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