“The use of strange and esoteric diction, especially the kind which has totally fallen away from societal use, can immediately invoke a sense of otherness within a story, an immediate feeling that the setting you’ve entered is weird and fantastical in nature.”
Read MoreThis 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 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 More“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 MoreThis 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 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 More“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 More“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 MoreThis week: Red Sonya (not Sonja), H.P. Lovecraft, Gene Wolfe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Mabinogion, Samhain, and more.
Read MoreSince 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.
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