The first Cirsova Magazine of 2023 does not disappoint. It’s full of wonderfully weird stories. Please be aware that there are some very minor spoilers in the reviews that follow.
Read More“My brother and I visited the Providence Lovecraftian sites. These included the addresses of the still-standing Lovecraft residences and also the specific city sights that had inspired his stories. Significant among the latter was the church from “Haunter of the Dark” and the “burying grounds” featured in multiple stories, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.”
Read MoreThis week: Tanith Lee, Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard, Thongor, viking films, and a new heavy metal track featuring Michael Moorcock.
Read MoreIn a literary career spanning seven decades, John Jakes established himself as a mainstay of American popular fiction. He started in the pulps, made the bestseller lists and died a millionaire. Two genre categories that Jakes made his mark on—swashbuckling historical adventure and sword-and-sorcery—are directly in the wheelhouse of DMR Blog readers.
Read MoreNow our art is threatened not by derivative authors, but by machines capable of turning it out in choking quantities. What happens if an AI-generated story is good? Can we read and enjoy it? Should we?
Read More“Writing is for the brave. No one is ever going to win over more than a very small particle of the entire reading audience. Write to have fun; if you are not having fun, don’t write. If you are writing primarily for money, well, there are easier ways to be poor.”
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, Robert E. Howard, Piers Anthony, Macbeth, Stephen King, Celts and barbarians, and more.
Read MoreI’ve long thought about what a shame it was that Irish fantasy artist extraordinaire, Jim FitzPatrick, hadn’t been hired by Ace Books to do the covers for Keith Taylor’s ‘Danans’ series of heroic fantasy novels. Thus, this post.
Read MoreSwain the Viking returns once more! DMR Books has already reprinted two volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s critically acclaimed but hard to find historical adventure series, and the third shall appear in early April.
Read More“My “background as a writer” is a deep and misty vista. My first fantasy novel, Mooncrow, was released by a New York publisher in 1978. I’ve been writing full-time for the past several years and have three different fantasy series that I now consider complete.”
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