New Edition of Ramsey Campbell's Far Away & Never Coming in October
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Ramsey Campbell’s fantasy collection Far Away & Never will return to print next month.
Read MoreLee Brown Coye -- Forty Years Gone
Lee Brown Coye was a truly unique artist, contributing covers to the original run of Weird Tales and, later, Arkham House and Carcosa.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 9/5/2021
This week: H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, Weird Tales, Clash of the Titans, and more.
Read MoreLovecraft: The Great Tales by John D. Haefele
In his massive new book—Lovecraft: The Great Tales—John D. Haefele just might have written the best overview of Lovecraft thus far seen.
Read MoreArt Overwhelming Nature and Destiny; A Reviewing of “The Witch Thorbjörg”
In “The Witch Thorbjörg,” there is a yearning to return to the past, to get compliance from otherworldly forces (spirits), the invisible and omniscient ones that, when appeased, give the living knowledge of the future. These unearthly forces offer insight when they hear a sacred, beautiful song.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/29/2021
This week: Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Vance, Ray Harryhausen, the upcoming Dune movie, Thongor comics, and more.
Read MoreJack Vance's Dying Earth: A Gallery
Jack Vance was born on this date in 1916. Despite Vance being one of my favorite authors, he’s been woefully underrepresented on the DMR Blog. Time is short right now, but I’m not going to neglect the 105th anniversary of his birth.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 8/22/2021
This week: Conan, Frazetta, Elric, Tanith Lee, Heavy Metal: The Movie, Norse sagas, a new John Carter novel, and more.
Read MoreThe Epic Legacy of Phil Lynott
Phil Lynott brought a new dimension to heavy metal, along with advancing the career of Irish artist, Jim Fitzpatrick. Thin Lizzy could boast some of the greatest guitarists of the 1970s, right along with some of the most epic lyrics.
Read MoreEntering the Lists of Howard Pyle’s Men of Iron
Where Grimdark fiction revels in gory details and emphasizes bloodshed and suffering, stories like Men of Iron draw the lens back, gray out the spouting red, and dim the unbearable screams of the wounded. But … they convey just enough detail to let us know what these times entailed, which were certainly not all romantic.
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