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The DMRtian Chronicles, 7/14/2019

HEED ME, MORTAL DOGS!: Support the Tales From the Magician’s Skull Kickstarter! (Black Gate)

"Gender aside, sword and sorcery dramatizes our gender-neutral, all-too-human fight against (and inevitable defeat by) time." Sword and Sorcery and the Inconsequentiality of Gender (Spiral Tower)

“With all due respect to Mr. Carney, I couldn't come up with a less-exciting description for the sword and sorcery genre if you held a fucking gun to my head.” Missing the Point of Sword and Sorcery (Brain Leakage)

“[Malcom (sic) Holmes, Jared Trueheart, and Daniel J. Davis] insist that S&S is male-centric and that its masculinist elements are the key to its appeal to readers. Sword and sorcery has balls, they insist hysterically.” "The Diamond in the Tang Where the Quillons Meet": A Sword and Sorcery Response to Holmes, Trueheart, and Davis (Spiral Tower)

A comic adaptation: Conan: The Frost-Giant's Daughter and Other Stories (New Iron Age)

Comic based on one of Howard’s historicals: Hawks of Outremer (2010) (Starships and Steel)

A six year hiatus comes to an end: Revival (The Silver Key)

Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography - David C. Smith (Rough Edges)

Rediscovered: Derleth in re: Weird Tales (Up and Down These Mean Streets)

Forgotten Book: Demons of the Night and Other Early Tales by Seabury Quinn (Jerry’s House of Everything)

Forgotten Novellas: Squadron of the Damned - David Wright O'Brien (Rough Edges)

Comic Book Stories I’m Reading: FRITZ LEIBER “Lean Times in Lankhmar.” (Mystery*File)

Trail of the Shark - David Hardy (Rough Edges)

Free Stuff at PulpFest 2019 (PulpFest)

James Branch Cabell's Precious Balms (A Shiver in the Archives)

A Brief History Of Folk Horror In Literature (Lit Reactor)

Speaking of folk horror: Old King Cole - Edward Shanks (Wormwoodiana)

Popular Yellowed Perils (PulpFest)