Steve Tompkins died ten years ago today. I and a few other bloggers will be posting blog entries in tribute to Steve, whom I consider the best “genre” blogger of the first decade in this twenty-first century. This post is intended to function as a one-stop guide to Steve's online legacy.
Read MoreHira Singh was Talbot Mundy’s fourth novel. It received mostly positive reviews but many critics were expecting something else, a novel more like his first three books. Hira Singh is first and foremost a tribute to the Indian soldiers who died fighting in Europe during World War I.
Read MoreThis week: Howard Andrew Jones’ new novel, Conan, Jirel, and a T-rex getting blasted by a tank.
Read MoreThe subject matter of heavy metal lyrics often mirrors that of sword and sorcery fiction. Sometimes the mirror is more than metaphorical, when bands show their dedication to their fantasy concepts by using album artwork identical to images that have appeared on the covers of novels and anthologies.
Read MoreAlgernon Blackwood was born one hundred and fifty years ago today in the English shire of Kent. Blessed with a name seemingly custom-made for an author of weird fiction, he went on to influence generations of horror and fantasy writers.
Read MoreWhen 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 More