Chris Hale was a student of sword-and-sorcery. He left this world far too soon, but he achieved notable things in the field of Howard Studies/S&S/Heroic Fantasy. I’m going to look at those achievements in this blog post.
Read MoreThis week: Wagner’s Kane, Moorcock’s Elric, Kirby’s Thundarr, John Maddox Roberts’ Conan, ‘80s fantasy movies, Icelandic sagas, and plenty more.
Read More2021 marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Murray Leinster’s birth. The man was an SF titan back in the early years of the pulps and his stories remain in print to this day.
Read MoreManuel Pérez Clemente—known to the world as Sanjulián—celebrated his eightieth birthday yesterday. Over the years, he’s painted great horror covers, Conan covers and everything in between.
Read MoreThese days there are so many new books coming out in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and adventure that it’s hard to keep track of them all! Let’s take a look at some that have been released this month.
Read MoreI just found out that Neal Adams turned eighty years old last week. I’m short on time but respects must be paid and props must be given. Neal Adams revolutionized the look of comics in the 1960s. He went on to create some of the coolest renditions of Tarzan and Conan ever…and he didn’t stop there.
Read MoreThere is a unique thrill in being able to read a work of fiction that few alive today have read. The Cosmic Courtship was written by Julian Hawthorne; the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published in All Story Weekly over four issues in the latter part of 1917, never to see print again; essentially making this story very rare and expensive to collect. Cirsova Publishing seeks to remedy that.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, Elric, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clark Ashton Smith’s Hyperborea, Frank Frazetta, Henry Kuttner, and more.
Read MoreThe 2020 and 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation awards were handed out in Cross Plains last weekend. While you might have seen the list of winners already, you may not realize how some of the recipients are connected to the DMR Books Blog. Check it out.
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