"To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq.,": Lovecraft's Ode to Clark Ashton Smith
In his last letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft, once again, expressed his profound admiration for the “Dark Lord of Averoigne”.
Read MoreTalbot Mundy and "Moon Over Africa"
The guys at the Old Time Radio website claim that the radio serial, “Moon Over Africa”, was written by pulp great, Talbot Mundy. Mundy’s biographer begs to differ.
Read MoreLurker Magazine Presents: The House on the Borderland Board Game
A metal zine that comes with a board game based on The House on the Borderland? As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/9/2020
This week: Elric, Conan, Jack Vance, Frazetta, Brom, trouble for G.R.R. Martin, talking heads (not the band), and more.
Read MoreThe Art of The Metal Monster
Monahan, Finlay, Cawthorn, Fabian and Hickman. Some of the greatest artists in the history of SFF have given the best of their talents to illustrate A. Merritt’s groundbreaking novel, The Metal Monster.
Read MoreA New World, A Metal World: The Metal Monster at 100
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Abraham Merritt's The Metal Monster. This weird tale mixes two-fisted pulp action with some of the most alien and otherworldly creations of all pulp fiction. Indeed, as with so much of Merritt's work, many aspects of the story are truly ahead of its time.
Read MoreGone in a Flash: The Flashing Swords Controversy and the Aftermath
Two days after Flashing Swords #6 was released, it was de-listed and deleted by its publisher. What will happen to the stories that were in it?
Read MoreTalbot Mundy -- Eighty Years Gone
Talbot Mundy, one of the Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery, died on this date in 1940. His influence still lives on. You just have to know where to look.
Read MoreThe Later Leiber: A Review of The Second Book of Lankhmar (Part 2 of 2)
Loki and Odin on Nehwon. A Mingol invasion. Heroes settle down, have children, get reflective, and (symbolically) die. The later Leiber stories are certainly unique, complex, and have a lot to unpack.
Read MoreThe Later Leiber: A Review of The Second Book of Lankhmar (Part 1 of 2)
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser of the late 1960s and on are not the same dashing heroes we meet in the early days of Unknown. The pace of the stories slow considerably, their adventures turn inward, and the stories occur in smaller spaces, in particular the distant island Rime Isle, located out on the very rim of Nehwon.
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