The DMRtian Chronicles, 12/19/2021
This week: Karl Edward Wagner, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, samurai films, The Tomb of Horrors, and more.
Read MoreReview: A Sorcerer of Atlantis by John Shirley
Blending fact, fiction, and legend Shirley seamlessly incorporates action, adventure, humor, horror, and plenty of tentacles to make this a fun read.
Read More(Not) Lost in Translation: The Influence of Old Norse Saga and Myth on Robert E. Howard and Sword-and-Sorcery
Old Norse literature undoubtedly served as a model for the eventual sword-and-sorcery tales of Kull and Conan. Saga and Norse myth inform sword-and-sorcery more than the more popular Greek and Roman myths, with their warm climates and heroes hailing from civilized lands.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/12/2021
This week: Robert E. Howard, Cauldron Born, The Witcher, Tanith Lee, the Thongor movie that never was, Mesopotamian demons, and more.
Read MoreA Few More Yuletide Gifting Thoughts...
The “Gifts for Yuletide 2021” blog entry needed to go up when it did and that’s what happened. However, there were plenty of worthies left out—as I admitted at the end of it. I’ve decided that those omissions shall not stand, so here’s the supplementary post.
Read MoreThe 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.
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