Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller painted hundreds of classic covers for SFF magazines and paperbacks. Emsh did it all, from Conan to Buck Rogers. He then went on to become a respected filmmaker and special effects pioneer.
Read MoreThe next DMR Books release, The Great Die Slow and Other Tales of Dark Adventure, is a collection of stories by Welsh author Harry Piper. Set in a Dark Age Celtic landscape shrouded in myth and legend, the seven dark, often tragic, tales contained in The Great Die Slow tell stories of ordinary men and women confronted by evil both human and inhuman.
Read MoreGardner Fox’s The Borgia Blade is a classic historical adventure. A swashbuckling combination of Robert E. Howard and Rafael Sabatini, packed with bloody combat and burning passions.
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, fantasy/horror art galleries, Judas Priest, Caylen-Tor, and more.
Read MoreImmanion Press is doing an excellent job keeping Tanith Lee’s memory alive and her work available. In recent years they’ve released a number of collections of Lee’s stories, including many that were previously uncollected, having only appeared once in magazines.
Read MoreThis week: Elak of Atlantis, John Carter of Mars, Conan, Edmond Hamilton, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, and more.
Read MoreIn the second part of Matthew Ilseman’s exploration of horror stories set at sea, he reviews tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and Jean Ray.
Read MoreThis week: Comic adaptations of Fritz Leiber and Richard Wagner, interviews with Byron Roberts and Howard Andrew Jones, slime monsters in Weird Tales, Ray Harryhausen, Tanith Lee, and more.
Read MoreGothic isn't the first thing people usually think of when they think of Sherlock Holmes. And yet, there is a very tangible thread of the Gothic running through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of the consulting detective.
Read MoreThe artist, John Byrne, turned seventy today. I would reckon most DMR Books fans know him from his work on superhero comics like The X-Men and The Fantastic Four. However, Byrne has a long history of drawing heroic fantasy characters.
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