In 1983, Fritz Leiber wrote an appreciation of Tros: "Talbot Mundy’s Tros of Samothrace is one of the half-dozen novels I have re-read most often in the course of my life, or rather during the thirty-eight years since I first devoured it.”
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Read MoreMundy's main venue was the pulp magazine Adventure. It was primarily through the tales that appeared in its pages that Mundy influenced the First Dynasty of sword and sorcery authors. He affected Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber strongly.
Read MoreMicah S. Harris is a writer in the New Pulp movement community who seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of many disparate subjects. “The Goat of St. Elster” originally appeared in Tales of the Shadowmen volume thirteen, Sang Froid.
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Read MoreOn this date in 1918, William Hope Hodgson met his fate in the blood-soaked, shambolic trenches of northern France, well-nigh disintegrated by a German mortar round. He was forty-one years old. England and the world lost a weird fiction author possessed of rare gifts on that spring day.
Read MoreDMR Books is proud to present our next publication: The Chronicles of Caylen-Tor, a collection of three exciting novellas by Byron A. Roberts.
Read MoreJames Branch Cabell was, by far, the preeminent American literary fantasist of the 1920s and early '30s. And yet, he is barely known outside hardcore literary fantasy circles now.
Read MoreThe 19th annual Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention took place this past weekend in Lombard, IL. It was a three-day affair, but unfortunately I was only able to attend for part of the day on Saturday. Five hours may seem like a good amount of time, but it wasn’t nearly enough to take in all the event had to offer.
Read MoreThe Eye of Zeitoon was Talbot Mundy’s sixth novel and the sequel to The Ivory Trail. It is the story of four friends, soldiers-of-fortune, and their adventures in the Ottoman Empire just before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.
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