I’ve long been fascinated with the issue of a dead author’s uncompleted works. What should be the fate of the half-finished novels and hardly-started short stories that so many leave behind? Though not a lot of people know it, no less a literary eminence than Edgar Allan Poe left behind an unfinished work—the first few handwritten paragraphs of a short story composed in the last months of his life.
Read MoreVirgil Finlay died of cancer at the age of 56 on this date in 1971. He left behind him one of the greatest portfolios in the field of SFF art.
Read MoreIn February DMR Books will publish The Empress of Dreams, a collection of sixteen of Tanith Lee’s tales of swords and sorcery.
Read MoreThis week: Conan, Kull, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs films, Heavy Metal magazine, and more.
Read MoreHorror author, Graham Masterton, turned seventy-five today. With nearly one hundred novels under his belt and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers' Association on his mantel, Mr. Masterton can look back on quite the career.
Read MoreJason Christopher Tarpey and DMR Books have a long history together. His story “Vengeance of the Insane God” appeared in the very first DMR release Swords of Steel back in 2015. Jason took the time to answer my questions about his music, his fiction, and his career as a blacksmith.
Read MoreThe Chronicles of Amber doesn’t meet the strictest definition of a sword-and-sorcery tale. But anyone hesitating to try the series because of a pedantic view of the genre’s borders is missing out, because the original five books narrated by Corwin (starting with Nine Princes of Amber and ending with The Courts of Chaos) are some of the finest heroic fantasy fiction ever put to paper.
Read MoreThe New Year’s Guest Bloggerama continues, as Chris L Adams celebrates the 128th anniversary of Clark Ashton Smith’s birth by showing off his collection of CAS books.
Read More“I, Maal Dweb, the ruler of six worlds and all their moons, shall go forth alone, unheralded, and without other equipment than that which any fledgling sorcerer might possess. In this way, perhaps I shall recover the lost charm of incertitude, the foregone enchantment of peril.”
Read MoreStruggle defined Jack London’s life and fiction. To London, such struggle was not only natural, but a necessary component of personal fulfillment. And more – he believed that confronting challenges instilled in the individual a sense of purpose which could rescue him from modern aimlessness.
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