August Derleth -- Fifty Years Gone

August William Derleth died of a heart attack on the Fourth of July, 1971. Thus ended a literary career that spanned six decades. Derleth won awards for his fiction, co-founded one of the most beloved small presses in the history of publishing and nurtured the careers and literary reputations of a legion of legendary authors—H.P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell being just two examples. AWD also helped co-found the Cthulhu Mythos along with HPL, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith.

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"Dinosaur Destroyer" and Robert E. Howard's "Spear and Fang" To Be Reprinted in Prehistoric Adventures

July will see the release of Prehistoric Adventures, the second themed anthology of the summer from DMR Books. The cover story is “Dinosaur Destroyer,” the cult classic novella by Arthur Petticolas written in the tradition of Robert E. Howard’s James Allison tales, where a modern man remembers his life in a savage age of the distant past.

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Review: The Cosmic Courtship by Julian Hawthorne

There 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.

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