The DMRtian Chronicles, 12/16/2018
This week: Elric comics, Weird Tales histories, Poe, Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell, and more.
Read MoreQuick Reviews: Fierce Tales - Savage Lands
Millhaven Press is a new publisher on the fantasy scene, but they already have quite a few anthologies to their credit. Savage Lands is the second volume in their Fierce Tales series, and contains five novellas.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/9/2018
This week: Leigh Brackett’s birthday, histories of Weird Tales and other pulps, Robert E. Howard, and more.
Read MoreBrackett + Freas = Coolness
As always, December 7 is the feast day of Saint Leigh, Our Lady of Planetary Adventure.
Read MoreThe Rolls Royce of Fantasy Publishers
Not only are Pegana Press reprinting several foundational works of the horror, sword and sorcery and fantasy genres, they are packaging them in exquisitely rendered, handcrafted editions
Read MoreQuick Reviews: Phalanxes of Atlans by F. van Wyck Mason
Phalanxes of Atlans originally appeared in the February and March issues of Astounding Stories in 1931, and was recently reprinted by Armchair Fiction in their “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.
Read MoreJim Cawthorn -- Ten Years Gone
I stumbled upon the fact that today marks the tenth anniversary of Jim Cawthorn’s death. Fantasy fans in the US might not be all that familiar with Jim's legacy, but he is certainly a man who deserves remembrance.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/2/2018
This week: Poul Anderson’s birthday, Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John stories, GRRM being a bitch, Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith and more.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/25/2018
This week: Robert E. Howard, Otis Adelbert Kline, J.K. Rowling, pulp fiction magazines past and present, and more.
Read MoreIt All Began With Tarzan
On this day of thankfulness, I feel obligated to express my debt of gratitude toward an iconic literary creation and the author who gave him to me and the world. That icon is Tarzan and his creator was Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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