Pulp Hero Press Releases Tales of Attluma by David C. Smith
A collection of David C. Smith’s earliest short stories is out now. Tales of Attluma contains 16 stories, most of which appeared only in long-gone fanzines from the 1970s.
Read MoreCover Reveal: The Eye of Sounnu by Schuyler Hernstrom
The next DMR Books release is The Eye of Sounnu, the long-awaited collection of Schuyler Hernstrom’s stories from Cirsova magazine. Today we reveal the incredible cover by Brian LeBlanc.
Read MoreTim Truman's Cover for "The Challenge from Beyond"
The Robert E. Howard Foundation is publishing all of the drafts that REH wrote for his chapter of the legendary round-robin tale, “The Challenge from Beyond”. Tim Truman has done the cover and we have the full version of that illustration.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/19/2020
This week: Moorcock, Frazetta, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, and more.
Read MoreA Feasting of Blood and Souls - An Audio Excerpt From "Karnov: Phantom-Clad Rider of the Cosmic Ice"
In his project Haunted Abbey Mythos, Matthew Knight performs dramatic readings of classic weird fiction enhanced by music and effects contributed by Jon Zaremba. Their latest production is “A Feasting of Blood and Souls,” an audio excerpt from Karnov. This is the closest thing we’ve ever had to an audiobook of a DMR release so far. A glimpse of things to come?
Read MoreKinsmen of the Dragon: A Lost Merritt-esque Classic
While perusing scans of old pulps, an ad in a 1951 issue of Imagination really grabbed my attention. “The Most Exciting Book Since Merritt’s Moon Pool”, the ad declared. “An original, never-before-published science-fantasy novel of the calibre of the great classics of Merritt, Taine, Wells… told with the gripping realism and brilliance of another Poe!” Well, damn, who wouldn’t want to read that?
Read MoreClark Ashton Smith and the Complete Book of Necromancers
Unlike all other 2nd Edition AD&D sourcebooks, The Complete Book of Necromancers explicitly admitted its inspiration from literary sources and encouraged players and DMs to do likewise. Clark Ashton Smith is mentioned by name in the majority of the chapters.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/12/2020
This week: An audio excerpt from Karnov, Phantom-Clad Rider of the Cosmic Ice, plus Conan and Solomon Kane comics, Kuttner, Moore, Weird Tales, Michael Kaluta, and more.
Read MoreThe H. Rider Haggard Project
“The H. Rider Haggard Project” has been the subject of speculation for almost two decades. A veteran art collector has recently dispelled most of the mystery around the Project.
Read MoreA. Merritt and the Science of Invisibility
On the whole, A. Merritt did not consider himself to be a writer of what is now known as "fantasy fiction". Most of his novels were intentionally based on scientific principles--albeit, he stretched many of those principles to the limit. As it turns out, his theories about how to make invisibility a reality are borne out by modern science.
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