Brennus: The Nemesis of Rome
Brennus, the Celtic king of Senigallia, was the first man to sack Rome. It would be nearly eight hundred years before another invader matched that feat. His exploits inspired the writings of Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreThurian Age Maps and Me: Part One
Lancer Books published King Kull in 1967. Within its pages was the first map of Robert E. Howard’s Thurian Age, which epoch existed millennia before the Hyborian Age.
Read MoreThe Long Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is probably the most influential American writer of all time. Ernest Hemingway may have pointed to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn as the progenitor of American literature, but with all due respect to both Twain and Hemingway, no American had the influence on not only American literature but world literature that Poe did.
Read MoreBrian Murphy Reviews DMR Books' Celtic Adventures
Brian Murphy knows his Sword-and-Sorcery. Therefore, it was cool to read his reviews of DMR Books’ Celtic Adventures.
Read MoreIn Outer Space with Clark Ashton Smith Part Two: Interstellar Space
Unlike the stories set in our solar system we do not know what exists in the rest of the universe. Anything could exist, and in Smith’s fiction, often does.
Read MoreIn Outer Space with Clark Ashton Smith Part One: The Solar System
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 MoreThe Definitive Edition of Merritt's Dwellers in the Mirage Coming in November
Last 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included the author’s preferred text, plenty of illustrations, and supplementary material, some of it previously unpublished, making it a dream come true for longtime Merritt fans.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 MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs: A Sesquicentennial Tribute--Some of His Obscure, But Cool, Novels
During 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: A Sesquicentennial Tribute--His Life
Edgar 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 MoreKaluta and Edgar Rice Burroughs
Michael 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.
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