Wayne Barlowe: Delights Both Infernal and Supernal
Acclaimed SFF/Horror artist, Wayne Barlowe, turned sixty-five today. His career now spans five decades and the time seems right for a look back on his body of work.
Read MoreREVIEW: Swords and Sorceries Volume Five
This year winds down with another remarkable collection. Many of the authors have appeared in previous installments of this series, but a handful are new.
Read MoreA Look Back: Deuce's Books in 2022
My accounting of books read in 2022. A good year for REH-related reads.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Daniel J. Davis
“An old bit of writing advice I heard is that story happens in the gap between expectation and reality. Thanks to my twisted humor, I tend to see those gaps everywhere.”
Read MoreKelly Freas: Repainting a Classic Weird Tales Cover
Kelly Freas--despite his iconic SF status—actually began his career at Weird Tales in 1950. He painted a legendary cover--"The Piper"--for WT editor, Dorothy McIllwraith, and then painted a new version for the editors of the revived Weird Tales in 1990. Thereon lies a tale, sword-brothers.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 1/1/2023
This week: Rumors of Kane reprints, Fritz Leiber, The Witcher, Robert E. Howard, dragons, James Branch Cabell, Michael Moorcock, and more.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: H.R. Laurence
“My day job is in film, and I realised last year that my creative outlet had become tied up with what I did to pay the bills. I needed to rekindle my joy in writing, and so I turned back to weird fiction and sword-&-sorcery – the stuff I’d loved writing as a child, and which had perhaps been squeezed out by adult life.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/25/2022
This week: Elric, Conan, Celtic weird fiction, Karl Edward Wagner, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury’s collaboration with Leigh Brackett, and more.
Read MoreUpdates to the DMR Books 2023 Release Schedule
Glenn Rahman’s collection A Feast of Ambrosia was scheduled to be released next month, but unfortunately it must be postponed. To fill the gap in the schedule for January, we’ll release Swain’s Chase, the second volume in The Saga of Swain the Viking by Arthur D. Howden Smith.
Read MoreAt the End: Zothique, Dying Earth, and the New Sun
Fantasy stories are typically set in either an imaginary world like Nehwon and Narnia or an imagined past like the Hyborian Age or Middle Earth. Then there is the Dying Earth genre which is set not only in the future, but at the end of Earth’s history.
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