Lovecraft’s stories speak with a voice that echoes the late 19th century wave of scepticism. Humanity is no special creation. We are made in no god’s image. We are a cosmic accident, and nothing more. His work bulges with bloodthirsty cults, hideous monsters, slumbering gods in ancient darkness and ordinary men driven to insanity by the merest glimpse of what lies in the shadows of our world.
Read MoreThis week: Lots of DMR favorites including Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, Manilla Road, Conan, Jack Vance, The Book of the New Sun, and more.
Read MoreIn his last letter to Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft, once again, expressed his profound admiration for the “Dark Lord of Averoigne”.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreA 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 MoreThis week: Elric, Conan, Jack Vance, Frazetta, Brom, trouble for G.R.R. Martin, talking heads (not the band), and more.
Read MoreMonahan, 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 MoreToday 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 MoreTwo 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, 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.
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