We Happy Few: The 2020 DMR Guest Bloggerama
The 2020 DMR Guest Bloggerama has drawn to a triumphant close. Check out the Roll Call of Honor to find hyperlinks to any of the posts you might have missed.
Read MoreGil Kane -- 20 Years Gone
Gil Kane died on this date in 2000. He was an artistic bad-ass. Let’s get that out of the way. He also depicted his figures in wildly exaggerated poses and drew far too many covers with the reader looking up various characters’ noses. Let’s get that out of the way as well. The bottom line is that Gil was a lifelong fan of the Good Stuff, he created a body of classic work and he was—and remains—an influence on numerous comics artists.
Read MoreYa Gotta Have Peart
If you just love Rush’s music and go no further, that’s fine. But you can go a lot farther: you can learn from Neil Peart: his ideas, his talent, his character, his career, his journey. For it was a journey of… what? Self-discovery? No, it would be better to call it self-evolution, self-realization.
Read MoreHoward’s Sorcery and Sorcerers
It’s an interesting exercise to go back a hundred years and observe how Howard himself brought to life the magic-doers in his stories. The vital energy, emotional darkness, and philosophical underpinnings that give Howard’s fantasy fiction its gravity serve both his sword wielders and sorcerers equally well.
Read MoreMore on Merritt: Contracts with Avon Books
A. Merritt is no stranger to readers of the DMR blog. In his heyday from the late teens of the nineteenth century to the early 1950s, he was arguably the most popular fantasy author in America. I thought I’d share here some rare paperwork relating to Avon reprints of his books.
Read MoreA Review of The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
To cut straight to the one-line review: Jamie Williamson’s The Evolution of Modern Fantasy (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) is a must-read if you’re at all interested in how the popular genre now known as “fantasy” came about. Even if it’s a little difficult to obtain and get into.
Read MoreThe Compatibility of Dwassllir’s Romanticism with Kane’s Pragmatism: Thoughts on Karl Edward Wagner’s “Two Suns Setting”
“Two Suns Setting” has held a grip on me for a couple of decades now. The dichotomy of the city of Carsultyal, that being progression built on the conservation of cultural fundamentals, is expressed throughout the story in the relationship between Kane and Dwassllir. Furthermore, it is the harmony of this duplexity that has drawn me to “Two Suns Setting” from the start. But why?
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 1/26/2020
This week: Lots of articles on Robert E. Howard, plus A. Merritt, Poe, Northwest Smith, Arthur Conan Doyle, and more.
Read MoreHowie K. Bentley on Rune Magick
For those of you who have read my work, you know the importance that rune magick has on the themes expressed in my tales. In this article, I’d like to talk about how I came to bring this concept into my work.
Read MoreLin Carter’s The Wizard of Zao: My Personal Gateway to the World of Sword & Sorcery
I went shopping with my mom one Saturday in 1977. I spent the rest of the weekend completely engrossed in Lin Carter’s tale of a mysterious wandering green-skinned wizard named Oolb Votz and his slave girl, Ooo, as they traveled through a world that at the time was totally alien to me.
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