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Welcome to Dunmore Dispatch!
Welcome to the Dispatch! Wherein I, Ian Dunmore, craft tales and share grounded stories of adventure and glory, joy and tragedy in a world of epic, high fantasy.
Pack your pike, load your matchlock, and stow your pouch of salt against all species of spirit or monster. Whether you’re here to catch a cursed play, fall in love, flee the law, or slay a serpent, you’ll find it here at Dunmore Dispatch!
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General Info
To learn more about me and my projects, check out my About page.
To see my archive, visit my Table of Contents.
Dunmore Fiction
I’m deeply grateful to a dear friend who wrote the following homage to my work, which does a great job describing much of what I strive for.
Every story of mine is set in the same world.
Every story is also standalone; they can be read in any order!
Outside of that, my corpus can be tonally and stylistically diverse — failing conventional categories and admitting much overlap, here are some categories for my tales:
People seemed to really like these ones. They’re probably a good starting point.
I’m particularly fond of these. But I’m also biased.
Epic battles. Mighty deeds. Prepare ye for bloodshed and glory!
Actual readers shed literal tears over this list. The real question is, will it make you cry?
Dunmorian tales with risible overtones.
Scratches on the wall and ghosts in the gloom. Read on, if you dare.
Sometimes it ends happily, other times it does not. But the lovers out there might love this list.
Stories of the bravest warriors who stand athwart the onslaught.
You can feel it watching you. Fly, break the curse, or prepare to fight!
Some are friendly, others hideous, still others are just out for a good time.
The sky will boil and the mountains tremble!
Every saint a past, every sinner a future.
Listen to the story, with audio provided by the excellent Zachary Harned.
Pick your favorite, or see where the wind takes you!
Dunmore Nonfiction
In addition, I do work discussing the craft of writing, genre, and occasionally get into protracted text debates with my editor and friend. Take the following, for example:
Building compelling and informed worlds, fictional or otherwise.
Making words that sing, dance, and remain in the reader’s mind.
Recommendations
Unsure where to jump in? Here are a few of my best by readers’ votes:
To God's Tower by Dawn
‘Twas the Eve of the Feast of Hall’d Ioska. The sun was setting, the last of its rays striking the pinnacle tower of Ocather’s grand tower, built upon a stone tidal island rising in the midst of the brackish bay separated from the mainland. The tower adjoined to a citadel, now a monastery. Smaller chapels, cloisters, …
The Wolf-Man's Trail
He knew there were wolves in the Nierpin Mountains. The broad peaks rose before him dark and stony and wet with frigid spring rains that gathered between the spurs and surged down into the valleys. For all of Langei’s life they had existed on the horizon. Now he found himself at their feet. He knew there …
The Ghost's Theatre
The play was called The Tragedie of Caligar d’Montreno, and it was said to be cursed. The completed manuscript was found lying next to its author, the late renowned playwright Eugel Menninwise, who had written the final monologue then driven his dirk into his eye and all the way to the hilt. His whole self he bled onto those pages… in more ways than one…
