The DMRtian Chronicles, 4/18/2021
This week: Reviews of Renegade Swords, Ken Kelly, Clark Ashton Smith, sword and sandal movies, Tarzan comics, Robert E. Howard, and more.
Read MoreThe Literary Afterlife and Legacy of Richard F. Burton (Part One)
Richard F. Burton was a writer and a poet, on top of being an anthropologist, an archaeologist, a geographer, a linguist, a mystic, a swordsman, a spy and a sexologist. Writing and poetry, not exploration or geography, are the through-lines to be seen from one end of his life to the other. RFB was a man of the written word, with few rivals during his era when it comes to quality and even fewer when it comes to quantity. He influenced authors from Arthur Conan Doyle to Philip Jose Farmer…and he still inspires authors today.
Read MoreLovecraftian Horror: Gothic, Weird, and the Inevitable
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was, like that looming spectre of his written works, a master of the Weird, and his driving focus without a doubt was to whet his tools of Cosmicism, which had given rise to his hallmark style, one to which Genre savants of this modern-day might refer as “Lovecraftian Horror.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/11/21
This week: Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard film adaptations, Virgil Finlay, Edmond Hamilton, dragons, Manilla Road, Thieves’ World, and more.
Read MoreWisdom from an Angry God: A Rebuttal to Peter Bebergal's Appendix N
Published in 2017 was Jeffro Johnson’s book Appendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons. At the time, Johnson’s Appendix N was the only in-depth exploration of how the works listed in Appendix N related to the development of D&D. Now comes along a book with a suspiciously similar title, Peter Bebergal’s Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons.
Read MoreManly Wade Wellman and Shadowridge Press
Shadowridge Press owner Robert Barr says a few words about Manly Wade Wellman, with this being the anniversary of Manly's passing thirty-five years ago.
Read MoreThe REH Foundation Awards Are Back!
Preliminary nominations for the 2020 and 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards are now live! There is a small window in which to nominate, so get your nominees in to the REHF now.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 4/4/2021
This week: Frazetta’s Tarzan, Kull, snake monsters, Gene Wolfe, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, and more.
Read MoreLovecraft and Leiber
Much has been made of the correspondence between H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, but Lovecraft corresponded with more writers, including a young Fritz Leiber, Jr. His work bears much influence of the Gent from Providence and Lovecraft was somewhat of a literary mentor of Leiber.
Read MoreREVIEW: Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
Dungeons and Dragons has become a household name. It is firmly embedded in our pop culture. Whether you have played the game or not, you are aware of it. Within its pages, co-creator Gary Gygax shared a list of stories that inspired him. This list is known as Appendix N.
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