The DMRtian Chronicles, 12/5/2021
This week: The Elric video game, Ramsey Campbell, C.L. Moore, Poul Anderson, Jim Fitzpatrick, Fritz Leiber, and more.
Read MoreJames MacPherson: A Lasting, But Troubled, Legacy
It is by no means hyperbole—though it is certainly arguable—to call James MacPherson “The Father of Modern Scottish Literature”. Nor would it be overselling it to call him “One of the Fathers of Modern (Anglophone) Fantasy”. His fantastical tales of Fingal and Ossian were admired by Sir Walter Scott and Robert E. Howard. The Ossianic tales opened up new vistas for fantasy in Great Britain and across Europe.
Read MoreReviewing H. P. Lovecraft’s story “The Festival”; Yuletide Criticism and Interpretation
Lovecraft’s “The Festival” offers up a weird experience of insanity. Its storyline events appear to take place during Yuletide, and the plot centers around a family mystery. This story is one I can recommend to anyone striving to understand weird fiction or gothic fiction, to anyone desiring something remarkably strange and spooky to read during any time between late November to Christmas Eve.
Read MoreGifts For Yuletide 2021
Cyber Monday is winding down. It got me to thinking about what DMR Books—and Friends of the DMR Blog—have to offer this Yuletide season. Plenty, as it turns out.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/28/2021
This week: Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard, Poul Anderson, Clark Ashton Smith, Celtic Frost, Henry Kuttner, and more.
Read MoreGiving Thanks for Poul Anderson
During his fifty-year career, Poul Anderson wrote numerous classics—major and minor—that fans of SFF should be thankful for. In my opinion, Poul is quite possibly the greatest science fiction author to ever pound a keyboard. He is also one of the finest fantasy authors to ever spin a yarn.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/21/21
This week: Barsoom, Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Lord Dunsany, Dune, and more.
Read MoreGiving Props to ERB's Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar created the template for the era of 'classic' Tarzan novels to come. Its publication was momentous at the time and—many decades later—that novel was my real intro to the world of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs and much, much more.
Read MoreReview: A Cowboy in Carpathia: A Bob Howard Adventure by Teel James Glenn
Teel James Glenn's story begins on that fateful day. What if Robert E. Howard had chosen to live? With nothing left to keep him in Cross Plains, Howard decides to go see the world he has written about but never seen.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/14/2021
This week: Clark Ashton Smith, Hawk the Slayer, Dune, Hyperion, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Planet Stories, berserkers, and more.
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