Contributor David Hambling sent me a review copy of this one. As usual, it jumped the review queue. Review: Tales of Shub-Niggurath, 2025. Cover by David Dodd There’s an obvious motif and plot elem…| MarzAat
After finishing Douglas Wynne’s SPECTRA series a while back, I picked this one up because it’s another detective story with fantastical elements. Review: The Wind in My Heart, Douglas Wynne, 2020. Wynne’s mystical murder mystery is short at a 118… Continue reading →| MarzAat
For various reasons, I haven’t done one of these for a while: a look at what The Weird Tradition group is discussing over at LibraryThing. Review: “The Pandemonium Waltz”, Jeffrey Ford, 2023. Our narrator starts right out telling us directly… Continue reading →| MarzAat
Penny does not expect to hear the roar of an invisible dragon on the path on the edge of a potato field. It takes a moment for her to think to look up. The hot air balloon passing above her head is too low and too large. Its white sphere stands out sharply against dense […]| Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart
Prismatic Wasteland, perhaps on behalf of Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy, has announced an Appendix N (or other letter) blog bandwagon. An Appendix N, I only recently learned, is a list of works that a TTRPG takes inspiration from, so named for the Appendix N in an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons. As it happens, I already have a list of non-fiction works that influence my playing and writing; it makes enough sense to make a list of fiction influences, too.| Advantage on Arcana
Do you get the urge or is it just me? You’re walking along and you see a half-eaten sandwich lying on the ground, covered with bits of grit and crawling with ants, and you think: I want to eat that…| precastreinforced.co.uk
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Salutations, lecteur. Aujourd’hui, je vais te parler d’une longue nouvelle du Maître de Providence, à savoir Les Montagnes Hallucinées, de H. P. Lovecraft Introduction Howard Phillips Lovecraft est…| Les Chroniques du Chroniqueur