DMR Books is proud to announce the release of the long-awaited novella The Godblade by J. Christopher Tarpey. The Godblade is a continuation of Tarpey’s story “Vengeance of the Insane God,” which appeared in the first DMR Books release Swords of Steel, and was one of the most popular tales in that volume.
Read MoreThis week: Conan, Karl Edward Wagner, vikings, Frazetta, Jeff Jones, Jack Vance, and more.
Read MoreI'm damned glad David Drake still walks amongst us. He has consistently created quality horror and SFF fiction for fifty years. Drake's also been a notable publisher and editor when he's found some time away from writing his own tales.
Read MoreJack Gaughan is barely remembered today. Like many other fantasy artists of the '60s and '70s, Gaughan's art didn't make it past the Great Divide of 1980. The fact remains that Gaughan’s work was seen everywhere in SFF art between 1955 and 1975.
Read MoreWilliam Buehler Seabrook died by his own hand on this date in 1945. As is so often noted in capsule biographies around the Net, Seabrook was "an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist." He was also an alcoholic, a bondage fetishist and a pretty good wordsmith. One could say he was the Hunter S. Thompson of the interwar period.
Read MoreThis week: Frank Frazetta, Karl Edward Wagner, Conan and Elric comics, Algernon Blackwood, Weird Tales, and more.
Read MoreIt’s been quite a while since we had an article on the originator of sword-and-sorcery himself, Robert E. Howard. I figured since we’re long overdue for an REH post, let’s make it a big one! All of Howard’s most notable characters are represented here: Kull, the Atlantean who became King of Valusia, the Puritan avenger Solomon Kane, and of course, Conan the Cimmerian.
Read MoreThis past Friday marked the four hundred and fifty-fifth anniversary of the definitive end to the Great Siege of Malta. On September 11, 1565, the tattered and battered fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent sailed away from the tiny island of Malta, utterly humiliated.
Read MoreThis week: Elric, Ken Kelly, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Conan, Red Sonja, classic sword and sorcery/planet anthologies, and more.
Read MoreThis week: Conan, Tarzan, HPL, Charles Saunders, Frazetta and other fantasy artists, and more.
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