UK artist, Bruce Pennington, turns seventy-five years young today. Bruce has done loads of great art in the sub-genres of sword and sorcery/heroic fantasy, sword and planet and Dying Earth fiction. Right in the DMR Books wheel-house!
Read MoreIn my last post, I discussed Gene Wolfe's life, his funeral and how I came to be a fan of his work. Now, I'd like to take a look at Gene's writing style, as well as recommending some of his novels.
Read MoreGene Wolfe would have turned eighty-eight years old yesterday. Mr. Wolfe died a few weeks ago on April 14. The man had lived to a ripe old age, and was suffering from various physical and mental ailments as a result of that, but it still hit me hard. A titan of literature had gone from our midst.
Read MoreThe King of the Pulps died on this date seventy years ago today. Henry James O’Brien Bedford-Jones, better-known to his millions of fans during the pulp era as "H. Bedford-Jones," passed away in his comfortable Beverly Hills home after forty years of living well off his pulp fiction.
Read MoreThis week: Howard, Brackett, Lovecraft, Smith, Williamson, and more.
Read MoreIt 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 MoreThe 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 MoreIn 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 MoreThis week: Conan, Leigh Brackett, werewolves, ERB, Japanese uncanny tales, and much more.
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.
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