Steve Tompkins Tributes Across the Blogosphere
It would look as if Steve Tompkins is still well-remembered by many bloggers out there in the aether. Commemorations of his untimely death ten years ago were many and far-flung.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 3/24/2019
This week: Frazetta, Conan, Merritt, turbonerds, galleries of pulp cover art, and more.
Read MoreSteve Tompkins - May His Light Never Dim
What really was Steve’s life’s work? He was one of the few men in his era raising the lantern to shine a light upon the past to help us better understand the present.
Read MoreA Lament for Sword-and-Sorcery Champion Steve Tompkins (1960-2009)
If you’re a fan of the type of content featured here on DMR Blog--whether or not you’ve ever heard of his name prior—today you should pour a libation for Steve, and honor a man whose passion for fantasy fiction in general and sword-and-sorcery literature in particular was second to none.
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Steve Tompkins
John C. Hocking, author of Conan and the Emerald Lotus, remembers Steve Tompkins.
Read MoreSteve Tompkins -- Ten Years Gone
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 MoreMundy Monday: Hira Singh
Hira 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 MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 3/17/2019
This week: Howard Andrew Jones’ new novel, Conan, Jirel, and a T-rex getting blasted by a tank.
Read MoreMetallic Mirrors Part One: Michael Whelan
The 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's Sesquicentennial
Algernon 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.
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