DMR Books Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Swords of Steel IV
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of DMR Books. To commemorate this momentous milestone, we're going back to where we started and reviving the Swords of Steel series!
Read MoreStephen Fabian: 60 Years of Classic Art
Stephen Fabian has illustrated everyone from Robert E. Howard to Fritz Leiber to Jack Vance to Gene Wolfe, creating art for publishers such as Arkham House, Donald M. Grant and TSR. In 2006, Mr. Fabian received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. He is, without a doubt, a living legend of fantasy art.
Read MoreKelly Freas -- 20 Years Gone
Kelly Freas was the acknowledged ‘King of Golden Age Sci-Fi Art’. What Frazetta was to Sword-and-Sorcery, Freas (pronounced ‘freeze’) was to Sci-Fi from about 1955 to around 1980. That’s a hell of a run; longer than Frazetta’s, to be honest. Then, in 2005, Kelly took that final voyage beyond the stars.
Read MoreEldritch Tidings From Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor is one of the greatest living practitioners of Sword-and-Sorcery. However, from the beginning of his career, Keith has always done a great job of incorporating horror elements into his heroic fantasy fiction. In addition, KT has written his share of actual horror tales over the course of his career. He is now about to jump into the Mythos horror field with a pair of novels. Plus, we have an update on the new Felimid mac Fal novel!
Read MoreReviews of DMR's The Ship of Ishtar Across the Webz (Part Two)
DMR Books recently published the centennial edition of A. Merritt’s The Ship of Ishtar. James Maliszewski, proprietor of the Grognardia website is a Merritt stalwart, a champion of A. Merritt's work for over fifteen years. When the DMR Books edition was first released, Maliszewski posted not one, but two, blog entries concerning The Ship of Ishtar. I will not only be commenting on James' posts but also the commenters on his posts. Some of those comments are quite interesting.
Read MoreThe Barbarian and the Playwright
Robert Ardrey wrote for Broadway. Robert E. Howard wrote for the pulps. Both perceived the bloody savage lurking beneath the veneer of civilization.
Read MoreReviews of DMR's The Ship of Ishtar Across the Webz (Part One)
The Black Friday weekend is behind us. It’s been nearly a month since DMR Books published the centennial edition of A. Merritt’s The Ship of Ishtar. Now seems a good time to do a round-up of reviews from across the ‘Net and see what our fellow Netizens have to say about this newest edition of a truly classic American fantasy.
Read MoreAudio Version of "The Necromancer and the Forgotten Hero" Now On Spotify
Good news for lovers of audiobooks: An audio version of my story “The Necromancer and the Forgotten Hero” is now available!
Read MoreThe Savage Swords of Jim Steranko
The birthday of the mighty Jim Steranko has rolled around again. A living legend of pop culture, I’ve written previously about Mr. Steranko. This time, I’m gonna look specifically at Jim’s awesome legacy of Sword-and-Sorcery/S&S-adjacent art.
Read MoreThe Weird Fiction of the Unjustly Forgotten Allison V. Harding
It is hard to say why certain authors are remembered and others are forgotten. There are also writers who aren’t well known that I believe deserve more respect. One such case is that of Weird Tales writer Allison V. Harding.
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