“Ancient literature is where I get a lot of ideas for sword & sorcery and horror stories. The more obscure it is, the better I find since I can get away with mining more ideas from it. That's probably one of the aspects I like the most about Celtic history and literature.”
Read MoreThis week: Michael Moorcock, Conan, Clark Ashton Smith, David Gemmell, Cugel the Clever, and more.
Read More“My art is not merely to please me or the masses, it is to contribute something of beauty, to honor beauty, to honor art, but also to blaspheme beautifully, to transgress, to decay. In some way, I want to create stories for people who have always wanted exaltation for the macabre and the gruesome.”
Read MoreThis week: Samhain Sorceries, Michael Moorcock, Conan, Joe Abercrombie, Karl Edward Wagner, Fritz Leiber, Frank Frazetta, and more.
Read MoreYesterday marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of Gene Day. A rising star at Marvel Comics, he was barely thirty-one years old. In a career not quite spanning a decade, he left an indelible legacy upon the comics and SFF fandom scene of the time.
Read More“The branch of satire that I follow derives from Menippus. These satires are experimental, and break the rules of conventional storytelling. Menippean satires are those weird, bizarre, off-the-wall books where, once you finish one, you can’t believe what you just read.”
Read MoreThis week: Keith Taylor’s Bard series, Elric, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Karl Edward Wagner, Conan, thoughts on AI art, and more.
Read MoreWe at DMR Books have a very busy fall season, and not just with new releases like Arminius, Bane of Eagles and Samhain Sorceries. During October and November you’ll see the DMR banner at four different conventions!
Read MoreSince the 1980s, Rafael Kayanan has been creating dynamic art with a high level of craftsmanship. For the past two decades, he’s also been a fight instructor to the likes of Danny Trejo and Liam Neeson.
Read More“I have no idea what readers expect. I know what I like, so that's what I write. Someone reading one of my stories with a particular idea of how the story will go is likely to be disappointed--or perhaps pleasantly surprised.”
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