These stories, despite their astronomic setting, are not really science fiction, at least not hard SF. (If you are looking for scientific rigor, look elsewhere.) These are Weird Fiction stories set in space.
Read MoreLast year DMR Books produced the Centennial Edition of A. Merritt’s fantasy classic The Ship of Ishtar. This edition included the author’s preferred text, plenty of illustrations, and supplementary material, some of it previously unpublished, making it a dream come true for longtime Merritt fans. Now Merritt’s novel Dwellers in the Mirage will get the same treatment!
Read MoreDuring the first decade of his literary career, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a man on fire, creating not just Tarzan and John Carter, but also many novels now (unjustly) forgotten. Toward the end of his life, with zero effs to give, ERB wrote some very interesting tales that one wouldn’t expect. Let’s look at a few of them.
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs was born exactly one hundred and fifty years ago today. While being a scion of a moderately wealthy family, he lived the life of a working man until he became a wildly successful author. He wrote adventures for the working man. Because of that, he became an American icon and his legacy lives on over a century after his birth.
Read MoreMichael Wm. Kaluta has spent well over a half-century illustrating the timeless tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is time to give him his due.
Read MoreWe’re having a big summer sale with plenty of titles marked down 25% until the end of August.
Read MoreH.P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890. By 1925, his impact on horror literature was seismic. Today, the ‘Lovecraftian lens’ is the paradigm through which most horror fiction is viewed—and written—today. Heroic fantasy follows many of the same rules.
Read MoreJim Reasoner is a scholar of Robert E. Howard and the pulps. He has also written hundreds of novels in various pulpish genres, some of them bestsellers. Now, he’s weighed in on DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreFive years ago DMR Books published The Great Die Slow and Other Tales of Dark Adventure by the Welsh author Harry Piper. The contract is expiring at the end of July, so the book will only be available for two more weeks.
Read MoreWeird fiction is essentially about creating a mood. The mood in Lovecraft’s fiction is a kind of fear bordering on the sublime. Perhaps of all Sword and Sorcery authors C. L. Moore did strange atmosphere best.
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