We’ve covered a fair amount of Stephen Fabian’s art here on the DMR Blog, but we haven’t spotlighted his horror/weird illustrations…until now. While the 1980s—when Fabian was illustrating everyone from H.P. Lovecraft to Clive Barker to Stephen King—could be considered the highpoint of Stephen’s career as a horror artist, I’ve decided to look at his earlier creepy illos created in the 1970s
Read MoreAuthor Tim Willocks, a Robert E. Howard fan, has written some of the best historical adventure novels of the last thirty years. His sixteenth-century protagonist, Mattias Tannhauser, is a worthy successor to Conan.
Read MoreThis week: Elric, John Carter, Captain Blood, werewolves, Poe, Kuttner, Bernie Wrightson, and more.
Read MoreEdward John Moreton Drax Plunkett—better known as Lord Dunsany—passed beyond the Fields We Know on this date in 1957. H.P. Lovecraft, was, without a doubt, one of the foremost Dunsany fans to ever walk the earth.
Read MoreThis week: Elric and Dejah Thoris comics, Karl Edward Wagner, REH, HPL, Atlantis & Lemuria, poseurs, and more.
Read More‘Tis the Witching Season and it seems apropos to run a post on Frank Frazetta’s macabre artwork here at the DMR Blog. Frank is, of course, known for his brawny barbarians and bodacious babes, but he had an iron in the horror fire starting in the early-mid 1960s, before he was doing actual Sword and Sorcery art.
Read MoreE.C. Tubb’s Dumarest Saga is a classic SF series. The Winds of Gath is the first of the Dumarest novels.
Read More"[E.C. Tubb’s] reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” — Michael Moorcock
Sword and sorcery tales are characterized by sword-swinging action focused on personal battles rather than world-shaking events, with an element of magic or the supernatural and sometimes one of romance as well. Tros of Samothrace has all those ingredients and was serialized a number of years before REH’s work; doesn’t that mean that it is Sword & Sorcery too?
Read MoreTen years ago, the bloggers at the award-winning website, The Cimmerian, got together and commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of Karl Edward Wagner’s death.
Read MoreKarl Edward Wagner will probably be best remembered as the creator of the hero-villain Kane, but he always considered himself a horror writer. Even when he was writing heroic fantasy, Karl’s Kane tales were horror at heart.
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