The DMRtian Chronicles, 1/19/2020
This week: Ki-Gor, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, The Witcher, Jirel of Joiry, Jim Steranko, and more.
Read MoreThe Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay
There have been many various editions over the years of the works of Virgil Finlay… but none, my friends, precisely like this one.
Read MoreDemon Dogs! A Thundarr Novel?
The stories and rumors surrounding Thundar, Man of Two Worlds are as fascinating as the novel itself. Some articles suggest a connection between the novel and the cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian, while others suggest that the novel was a re-working of Bloodstone’s earlier, unpublished (and unauthorized) novel, Tarzan on Mars.
Read MoreBy the Severed Head of Ghormanteia! The Story Behind Karnov
An idea struck me to organize a collaboration with my two friends and heavy metal fantasist brothers-in-arms, Byron A. Roberts and Howie K. Bentley. I thought of an idea to do something with a ‘sword and sorcery meets Hammer Films’ kind of vibe.
Read MoreThe Face in the Wall
Hooked by the sixth paragraph of Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth, I devoured page after page and came at last to the Museum of Man, where in my imagination I stood with young Guyal of Sfere and Shierl, his lovely companion, gazing with horror upon a gigantic, hideous face that protruded from a wall. It was the demon Blikdak, and his intentions were dire.
Read MoreA Voice from the Past - The Book of Taliesin
As someone who writes a great deal of heroic fantasy set in a Dark Age Britain (or an ‘early medieval’ Britain, as the scholars would have it now, but they have no ear for poetry) with the serial numbers filed off, it behoves me to have some idea of what those ages were actually like. Thankfully, I have the recently-published The Book of Taliesin.
Read MoreMike Resnick: One of Us
Mike Resnick, the winner of numerous SF awards, including five Hugos—back when they counted for something—died the other day. While not a berserker in the front rank of the shield-wall, Mike was one of us. How so? Let me count the ways.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 1/12/2020
This week: Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, tit-bait fantasy covers, The Land That Time Forgot, Neil Peart, and more.
Read MoreDemons of the Multiverse: Quaolnargn
Michael Moorcock is one of the authors who always impresses me with creative ideas when it comes to magic and supernatural elements. Throughout the Eternal Champion cycle, we encounter not only his own breeds of various mythical beings, but also patron demons, elemental spirits, cosmic monsters, strange races, Lords of Chaos and countless creatures of multiversal netherworlds.
Read MoreHeavy Metal Sword and Sorcery
Once Upon a Time there was a negative, put-down review of a Sword and Sorcery novel (are you surprised?). The reviewer sneered at the book as being, “The Heavy Metal of Fantasy Fiction.” But the put-down backfired.
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