Keith Taylor: Still Going Strong
Keith Taylor's birthday has rolled around once again. I thought I'd apprise the Gentle Readers of the DMR Blog of what Mr. Taylor is working on now and what his fans can look forward to in 2019.
Read MoreThe SF and Horror Fiction of Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber was born on the twenty-fourth of December. As it so happens, I first read his fiction on the twenty-fifth of December, albeit many decades later.
Read MoreForefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers died eighty-five years ago today. Once one of the most popular authors in America, Chambers' handful of weird tales—The King in Yellow paramount among them—are what keep him in the public eye a century later.
Read MoreForefathers of Sword and Sorcery: H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft was born one hundred and twenty-eight years ago today and when it comes to the Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery, he is truly a Great Old One. The two co-founders of sword and sorcery fiction both considered HPL to be possibly the greatest living writer and all of the First Generation S&S authors were part of the Lovecraft Circle. All of them.
Read More"I Dream in Fire But Work in Clay" - Arthur Machen
“There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.”
“I dream in fire but work in clay.” -- Arthur Machen
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