Coming Soon: Necromancy in Nilztiria by D.M. Ritzlin
Next week will see the release of the 20th title from DMR Books. Necromancy in Nilztiria contains thirteen stories of adventure and wonder with a touch of gallows humor.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/30/2020
This week: Jack Vance, a Dio comic book, Michael Moorcock, Eternal Champion, Robert E. Howard, Dune, and more.
Read MoreSword and Sorcery: The First Dynasty
So what about this "First Dynasty" business? That would refer to Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner and Fritz Leiber. In that order. Those writers produced the vast bulk of sword and sorcery literature from 1929 through 1939.
Read MoreSome Classic SF Art From Kelly Freas
Kelly Freas’ art epitomizes the look of what’s known as the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Gorgeous color, beautiful women, sleek spaceships and a universe blazing with stars.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/23/2020
This week: Elric, Conan, Frazetta, Leiber, CAS, Ray Bradbury, Tarzan, and more.
Read MoreThe Savage Swords of Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury took a half-written planetary adventure story started by Leigh Brackett and finished it, creating a minor classic in the process. As Leigh herself said--with thirty years to think on it--Bradbury did a better job than she would have.
Read MoreQuotes from HPL and Klarkash-Ton Regarding A. Merritt
In Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith both comment extensively regarding A. Merritt and his fiction. Included in this post is a comment by CAS to another correspondent regarding The Ship of Ishtar.
Read MoreDawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: A Review
Lovecraft was nothing if not a writer of letters. It was one of his defining traits. His correspondence with Clark Ashton Smith is among his great legacies. Fortunately, Hippocampus Press has finally published Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith in fairly affordable trade paperback editions.
Read MoreThe Cosmic Pessimism of H.P. Lovecraft
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 MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/16/2020
This week: Lots of DMR favorites including Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, Manilla Road, Conan, Jack Vance, The Book of the New Sun, and more.
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