Today marks the seventy-fifth birthday of the wildly talented artist, John Bolton. While he is, perhaps, more famous for his Kull covers for Marvel Comics, I want to focus on his Dark Horse Cormac Mac Art and Bran Mak Morn covers.
Read MoreFor World Goth Day, Matthew Pungitore shares his appreciation of Gothic literature.
Read MoreIn honor of Ken Kelly’s birthday, I reminisced a little bit and posted a gallery drawn from his amazing body of artwork.
Read MoreCormac FitzGeoffrey is perhaps the most notable of all the protagonists that Robert E. Howard created in his ‘Crusader’ stories; tales written with a significant element of historical realism. Cormac is reminiscent of Conan: tall stature, tigerish strength, fierce blue eyes, jet-black hair…and a force of nature on the battlefield.
Read MoreFantasy literature can give you new sensations and images. Most of the stories mentioned here have a hallucinatory weirdness and a brooding atmosphere. This comes from not only the description of these buildings but their nature.
Read MoreThe aesthetics of architecture is interesting. The design, the shape, the decoration of buildings can produce strong feelings in a person. This is true even in fictional buildings. Perhaps more so in Sword and Sorcery and Weird Fiction which is overrun with strange, often decaying structures.
Read MoreThis June DMR Books will proudly present M. Stern’s first collection, Kingdoms Trembling. All twelve of the tales in this book take place at various locales in K’Zal and the surrounding lands, and all of them are previously unpublished.
Read MoreRobert E. Howard wrote a great deal about the rise and fall of empires. John Glubb, a formidable soldier and historian, wrote a book called The Fate of Empires which aligns with many of Howard’s themes and attitudes.
Read MoreEarlier this week four authors in the Walpurgis Witcheries anthology convened at the Monsters, Madness & Magic podcast to discuss the upcoming book and sword-and-sorcery fiction in general.
Read MoreRecently we announced our new sword-and-sorcery anthology Walpurgis Witcheries, to be released on April 30. The nine stories contained in this book should satisfy every afficionado of fantasy adventure and horror. But for those who still crave more, we’ve got a special supplementary release in store for you: Two Tales of Witchery!
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