News Roundup W/E 2022-06-26

Personal / Website NewsScholars From the Edge of Time

Brand new episode of Scholars from the Edge of Time on Hercules Invictus’ Mount Olympus programming is now online.

Personal Copy.

In this episode Michele and I talk about the 80s sword and sorcery film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, which was legit good! The episode can be streamed at BlogTalkRadio.

Next month we will be talking about DragonHeart (1996).

New H.P. Lovecast This Thursday

Our monthly Transmissions program will be published this upcoming Thursday, June 30th. We will be interviewing Lora Senf and Robert Ottone.

General Neo-Peplum News“Temm the Riven” by Brian Matthews

Dark fiction writer Brian W. Matthews, author of The Conveyance (read my review over at Goodreads), Forever Man (which just got a re-release earlier this month) and its sequels Revelation and Dark Rescue, takes a plunge into the sword and sorcery genre with a new short story titled “Temm the Riven.” The story will be published in an upcoming issue of the recently revived Weird Tales magazine.

Amplifying Antiquity with Heavy Metal Music

Dr. Jeremy Swiss was recently interviewed Brandeis University in their BrandeisNow online news. The interview is called, “Amplifying Antiquity with Heavy Metal Music” and can be read here.

DMR Blog Entries

DMR Books is a publisher of sword and sorcery, pulp, and horror books that are in an old school pulp vein. In addition to their publishing endeavors they maintain a very active blog of contributors doing essays, interviews, and reviews. This past week saw:

Interview with John C. Hocking, author of Conan and the Emerald Lotus and various short storiesReview of issue 11 of the speculative fiction magazine CirsovaA retro review of the 1979 sci-fi novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe by George Takei and Robert AsprinA write up looking at some of the paintings based on the works of H. Rider Haggard