The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/5/2019
This week: Howard, Brackett, Lovecraft, Smith, Williamson, and more.
Read MoreThe Sword & Planet Art of Stephen Fabian
It has been far, far too long since the DMR Books blog has run a post featuring the art of the mighty Stephen Fabian. By the same token, we haven't done anything Sword & Planet-related for quite some time. Stephen Fabian. Sword & Planet. Two great tastes that taste great together.
Read More2019 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards Nominees Announced
The Robert E. Howard Foundation presents awards annually to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of Howard scholarship. This year’s nominees have been announced, and we at DMR Books are honored to be among them.
Read MoreMundy Monday: Leiber’s “The Glory of Tros”
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.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/28/2019
This week: Conan, Leigh Brackett, werewolves, ERB, Japanese uncanny tales, and much more.
Read MoreForefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Talbot Mundy
Mundy'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 MoreThe Sword of the Order: A Review of “The Goat of St. Elster”
Micah 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.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/24/2019
This week: Gene Wolfe, Leigh Brackett, classic horror and SF reviews, and more.
Read MoreHodgson Meets His Doom at Ypres
On 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 MoreThe Chronicles of Caylen-Tor by Byron A. Roberts Coming in May
DMR Books is proud to present our next publication: The Chronicles of Caylen-Tor, a collection of three exciting novellas by Byron A. Roberts.
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