There are various things about S&S that appealed to me but a big one is the outsider protagonists. Conan is often alone against a dangerous world. That feeling is something I understand. Another thing I like about it is the sense of adventure which is rare in modern society.
Read MoreThis week: new Conan stories, Fafhrd & Gray Mouser comics, Barbarian Queen, Jim FitzPatrick, Arthur Machen, and more.
Read MoreThe release of my first sword-and-sorcery novel, Vran the Chaos-Warped, is still about a month away, but today I’m proud to reveal the cover art.
Read MoreThis week: Howard Andrew Jones, Conan, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, H.P. Lovecraft, viking sagas, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warren comics, and more.
Read MoreThis week: The Book of the New Sun, Elric, Fritz Leiber, Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, weird menace pulps, Castle Amber, and more.
Read MoreThe Viking Gael Saga opens with a duel. A debt is owed and must be paid. The debt is challenged, and the duel will settle the matter once and for all. Tragically Asgeir ends up serving as an oarsman in Ulf the Old's crew. Adding salt to the wound, a stranger now wields his father's blade.
Read MoreThis week: The Witcher, Conan, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Andrew Jones, the state of new sword-and-sorcery, and more.
Read MoreSince the release of Die By the Sword, DMR Books’ latest sword-and-sorcery anthology, we’ve received requests from readers and writers alike for a follow-up volume. Who are we to refuse? Today we can announce that we will take submissions for Die By the Sword Volume II throughout the month of November.
Read MoreThis week: Elric, Conan, Solomon Kane, Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner, Tarzan, Clark Ashton Smith, and more.
Read MoreWhile mostly forgotten today, Robert Adams was a towering figure in the SFF Adventure genre during the Eighties. He sold millions of his own novels while also editing numerous worthy anthologies.
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