The DMRtian Chronicles, 12/13/2020
This week: Richard Corben, Conan, music by Michael Moorcock, and an assortment of horror, historical, and weird fiction.
Read MoreFarewell, Richard Corben
The news of Richard Corben’s death reached his fans a few days ago. The world of SFF art has lost an utterly unique talent.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/6/2020
This week: Michael Moorcock, Charles Saunders, Berni Wrightson, the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, Weird Tales, reviews of new sword-and-sorcery periodicals, and more.
Read MoreKarl Edward Wagner: Born For Blood and Darkness
Karl Edward Wagner was born on this date seventy-five years ago. By the age of thirty, he was making waves in both the genres of Horror and of Sword and Sorcery. At the time of his untimely death in 1994, he was already a legend.
Read MoreN.C. Wyeth's Art for The Scottish Chiefs
Jane Porter wrote one of the very first modern historical novels, The Scottish Chiefs, in 1809. In 1921, Charles Scribner's Sons reissued an edited version of Porter's novel. They gave it the deluxe treatment , with a stunning dustjacket, endpapers and interior illustrations by the legendary N.C. Wyeth.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/29/2020
This week: Poul Anderson, Corum, Conan, HPL, Manly Wade Wellman, and more.
Read MorePulp Hero Press Releases Savage Scrolls, Their First Sword-and-Sorcery Anthology
There are plenty of well-known names in the Savage Scrolls lineup: David C. Smith, Adrian Cole, and Howard Andrew Jones, among others.
Read MoreCall Me Joe by Poul Anderson (NESFA Press)
Poul Anderson is a bonafide legend in the chronicles of science fiction. Call Me Joe, from NESFA Press, is a worthy collection of Poul’s SF tales spanning over four decades.
Read MoreOne Ring Rules Them All: A Comparison of Karl Edward Wagner’s Bloodstone and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) began a draft of Bloodstone and its immortal protagonist Kane in 1960, while just a freshman in high school. Wagner finished the draft of Bloodstone in 1970 while enrolled as a PhD student in neurobiology. By then, J.R.R. Tolkien was everywhere—including, as I argue, in the published version of Wagner’s 1975 novel.
Read MoreReview: The Last Days of Atlantis by Charles Lomon and Pierre-Bathelemy Gheusi
The Last Days of Atlantis, or Les Atlantes, Aventures des temps Legendaires, is a title few know about. A tale of love, a tale of betrayal and a tale of war on an island destined for destruction.
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