The DMRtian Chronicles, 11/20/2022
This week: George R.R. Martin, Clark Ashton Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Guillermo del Toro’s cancelled Lovecraft adaptation, Manly Wade Wellman, Solomon Kane, and more.
Read MoreFrank Frazetta and Hal Foster: Dragon Lords
Frank Frazetta freely acknowledged Hal Foster as his biggest artistic influence. In this post, I look at the (possible) Foster influence on a little-known Frazetta painting from 1983.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: M.C. Tuggle
“I grew up in an environment that stoked my imagination. Within hiking distance of my home were the castle-like ruins of a gold smelting mill from the early 1800s. Growing up on a tobacco farm, we spent our spare time finding Indian artifacts in plowed fields. Ancient lore has always fascinated and inspired me.”
Read MoreThe 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.
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