I started reading Savage Realms when the first issue came out in January 2021. I was struck by how inventive some of the stories were. They sat firmly within the domain of Sword and Sorcery but there were some surprisingly fresh takes on the genre.
Read MoreThis week: Japanese Conan art, Frazetta, Zelazny, Fu Manchu, Highlander, Flash Gordon, Lord Dunsany, and more.
Read MoreBram Stoker, Lord Dunsany and Sax Rohmer were all admirers of Richard F. Burton. Burton may have died in 1890, but his literary influence reaches right up until the present day.
Read MoreIt may seem a strange thing to talk about realism in the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. Truth be told, it is a strange thing to talk about realism in fiction in general. However, the techniques of realism can be used to enhance a story. Lovecraft often used them.
Read MoreJune 1st marks the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Sax Rohmer. DMR Books recently marked the bicentennial of Sir Richard Burton’s birth. Rohmer counted Burton’s multi-volume translation of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights as one of the key influences in shaping both his writing and his lifelong interests.
Read MoreThis summer DMR Books will release three differently themed reprint anthologies, the first of which will appear in mid-June. Entitled Planetary Adventures, it will contain five rare tales from the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Mars in the pulps, Lovecraft, ape monsters, Hammer Films, and more.
Read MoreI just learned that John Bolton turned seventy years old the other day. That would be John Bolton of England. One of the great SFF/horror artists of the last forty years. An artist whom Neil Gaiman felt compelled to make a short film about. That John Bolton. Not the American neocon diplomat.
Read MoreDMR Books has acquired reprint rights to the dark swords and sorcery collection Far Away and Never by Ramsey Campbell. The agent was John Jarrold. The collection, originally published 25 years ago by Necronomicon Press, contains all of Campbell’s stories of Ryre which appeared in the Swords Against Darkness anthologies.
Read MoreThe Song of Bêlit was originally published in 2017 by Sportula, but only in Spanish. It wasn't until the summer of 2020 that it was translated by Rodolfo Martínez and Christopher Kastensmidt into English. What Martínez has done here is incorporate Howard's original work and expand on it.
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