When Lin Carter casually remarked that Tolkien “rather enjoyed” the Conan stories, I doubt he expected that decades later Howard fans and Tolkien fans alike would still be curious about the specifics. Which Conan stories did Tolkien read? Let’s find out!
Read MoreWhen we released the first-ever collection containing all of Nictzin Dyalhis’ fantasy and science fiction last year, the classic size edition sold out fairly quickly. However, we held back one copy to give away to a lucky reader of the DMR website. What do you have to do to win this amazing prize, which will certainly be a collector’s item in years to come?
Read MoreThis week: ERB’s the Moon Maid, REH, Arthur Machen, Manly Wade Wellman, and plenty more.
Read MoreRung 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 MoreThis week: August Derleth, Conan, Kull, Clark Ashton Smith, a Michael Moorcock live performance, The Worm Ouroboros and more.
Read MoreAs 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 MoreI 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 MoreI 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 MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, a Hawkmoon TV series, ‘50s pulp sci-fi, and more.
Read MoreI 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.
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