The DMRtian Chronicles, 11/13/2022
This week: The star of The Witcher quits, Robert E. Howard’s influence on reptilian conspiracy theories, Clark Ashton Smith, Homer, the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, Hyperion, and more.
Read MoreDMR Books to Publish Collection of Glenn Rahman's Sword-and-Sorcery Stories
DMR Books is pleased to announce the upcoming release of A Feast of Ambrosia: The Adventures of Bingor and Donalbain by Glenn Rahman. The “heroes” of this collection, the sly Sicilian scoundrel Bingor and the Scottish bard Donalbain, have their origins in the small press fanzines in the 1970s.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Tim Hanlon
“I am still experimenting every time I write for an anthology. Sometime the experiments work and sometimes they blow up in my face and I’m never quite sure which will happen with any story.”
Read MoreREVIEW: Jiao Tu's Endeavour by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
“As a fan of many genres of fiction, I still find it hard to pin a label to this collection. This world is a massive spacecraft populated by sentient bipedal animals. This existence has persisted for so long that there are myths and legends about the creation of this world.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 11/6/2022
This week: Red Sonya (not Sonja), H.P. Lovecraft, Gene Wolfe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Mabinogion, Samhain, and more.
Read MoreKaluta's Celtic Calendars
Since we’re a day or so into what the Celts considered the new year and since this is Mike Kaluta’s seventy-fifth birthday year, it seemed fitting to look back on a Kaluta project from two decades ago: his ‘Celtic calendars’ for the Celtic League.
Read MoreComing in December: Swain's Vengeance by Arthur D. Howden Smith
Fans of pulp adventure rejoice! Next month will see the release of Swain’s Vengeance, the first of four volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s rousing saga of Swain the Viking. The stories of Swain, which were based on the Orkneyinga saga, appeared in the pages of Adventure magazine in the early 20th century. With few exceptions, these tales have gone unreprinted since then.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Chuck E. Clark
“I am permanently in love with the idea of writing and can write endless thousands of words about a story idea. Actually writing the damn story is kind of a new wrinkle for me. Aside from my Turkael stories in the first five issues of Whetstone, I am working on a pretty wide spread of horror and fantasy short stories to build up my presence a bit.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 10/30/2022
This week: News on an Eternal Champion TV series, Robert E. Howard’s horror stories, Vampirella, Ramsey Campbell, barbarian movies, Cthulhu Mythos movies, and more.
Read MoreLord Dunsany: A Legacy of Myth and Wonder
Lord Dunsany spearheaded a new phase in the evolution of fantasy literature, telling mythic tales of awe and wonder. J.R. R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Fletcher Pratt, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Michael Swanwick and George R.R. Martin were all influenced by Dunsany to one degree or another.
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