Entertaining adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's work are, in my estimation, few and very far between. For the most part movies tapping into Lovecraft's work tend to feel like they're miles away from the cosmic horror themes that saturate most of the author's stories. After about fifteen minutes, Color Out of Space broke past my antagonism and hooked me.
Read MoreThis week: sword and sorcery movie posters, Elric, ERB films and comics, Manilla Road, August Derleth and other Weird Tales writers, and more.
Read MoreA ship sails into another dimension. A house in Hamburg is besieged by invisible forces. The greatest detective in the world battles a monster of unknown origin under the streets of London. These are stories of Jean Ray, who was known as “The Belgian Poe.” Other writers he was similar to are H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, and Guy de Maussapant.
Read MoreThis week: Demons & Wizards on which books are the most metal, plus HPL, CAS, Manly Wade Wellman, Jack Vance, and more pulp fantasy, adventure and horror.
Read MoreAward-winning author, Tim Powers, got to celebrate his actual birthday today, him being a Leap Year baby and all. I’ve been a solid fan of his for three decades and I thought a look at Tim’s more swashbuckling output was called for.
Read MoreSo, I was thinking about Frank Frazetta’s series of Buck Rogers covers for Famous Funnies comics. One thing that struck me is the evolution of Buck’s headgear. From issues #209 through #212, Frank was drawing Buck wearing some version of a twentieth-century aviator helmet. The helmets on the covers of #213 and #214 seem to be some sort of intermediate version—Buck is also wearing a kilt on the cover of #213, for some reason. Starting with #215, we see Frazetta putting a much more stylish winged helmet on Buck’s cranium
Read MoreThis week: Reviews of Flame & Crimson, Tarzan on Mars, Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Alexandre Dumas, and more.
Read MoreJust over forty years ago, Frank Frazetta hit his cultural peak. As far as Frank’s work reaching a mass audience in the USA, his concept art for the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, which was reproduced in the pages of TV Guide. was his high-water mark. It was also pretty glorious stuff.
Read More2019 was a landmark year for DMR Books, as we released nine titles—an unprecedented amount for us! We’ve come a long way from our early days of releasing one book per year, and we have no intentions of slowing down now.
Read More“The Dark Eidolon” is possibly one of Clark Ashton Smith's most notorious stories in the Zothique cycle, and my guess is it's due to its relatability. How many of us have yearned for revenge on past wrongs committed against us?
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