The DMRtian Chronicles, 3/10/2019
This week: ERB’s the Moon Maid, REH, Arthur Machen, Manly Wade Wellman, and plenty more.
Read MoreMundy Monday: Rung Ho!
Rung Ho! was Talbot Mundy’s first novel. The story moves right along, with flashing swords (a knife too), an encounter with a tiger (at close quarters) and even a number of cavalry charges.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 3/3/2019
This week: August Derleth, Conan, Kull, Clark Ashton Smith, a Michael Moorcock live performance, The Worm Ouroboros and more.
Read More"The Moon Pool" Re-Read: Part Three
As I gazed once again upon Finlay's striking illustration of the moment when Dr. Throckmartin's colleague, Charles Stanton, is taken into/devoured by the Dweller in the Moon Pool, a thought occurred to me. The estates of Merritt and Finlay really missed the boat when they did not take the opportunity to have Finlay's illo made into a black light poster.
Read MoreTwo Missed Centennials in 2018
I like celebrating centennials and other such anniversaries. That said, I dropped the ball in at least two instances. When August 1st, 2018, rolled around, I didn't do a post on the first pulp publication of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic novella/short novel, "The Land That Time Forgot.”
Read MoreRegarding August Derleth
I am Deuce Richardson and I am a recovering Derleth-hater. Today marks the one hundred and tenth anniversary of August Derleth's birth. Considering statements I made in the past, I feel it is incumbent upon me to lay out some facts so that others may not wander down the same error-plagued path that I did.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 2/24/2019
This week: Robert E. Howard, a Hawkmoon TV series, ‘50s pulp sci-fi, and more.
Read MoreQuick Reviews: Swords Against the Shadowland
I don’t get the appeal of pastiches. It’s virtually impossible to copy all aspects of another author’s writing style. In Swords Against the Shadowland, the only Fafhrd and Gray Mouser novel not by Fritz Leiber, Robin Wayne Bailey comes closer than most. Unfortunately, he also misses the mark in certain major ways.
Read MoreThat Other Theseus Novel: a Discussion of Steven Pressfield’s Last of the Amazons
Last of the Amazons delves directly into Renault (and Graves) territory, a quasi-historical, centered on the war between the Athenians with the fabled Amazons.
Read More"The Infernal Bargain" by D.M. Ritzlin Now Available -- For Free!
Sign up for the DMR Books newsletter and you’ll be able to download “The Infernal Bargain.” This story, which features illustrations by the talented Zarono, will be available nowhere else.
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