Category: Fantasy
Christmas as the black hole of popular culture
(Reposting from 2018, because hopefully we have lots of readers now we didn’t have back then). Over the years Christmas has become the black hole of movies, drawing them to …
Time is the fire in which we burn? Why didn’t anyone tell me!
Which is to say I had no time to write a post for today. Instead, let’s look at some paperback covers, shall we? Specifically the work of Jack Gaughan who …
Magic runs wild in the 20th century as I shamelessly promote myself!
That’s the subtitle for my new short story collection, 19-Infinity, a collection of unrelated short stories set at various points in the 1900s. It’s out in paperback from Amazon and …
A for Effort, F for Execution: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land
I’m confident everyone reading this blog has seen at least one work of fiction where a great concept was ruined by terrible execution. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land is …
Classic Fantasy Worth Reading: The Deryni Series by Katherine Kurtz
Wow, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has nothing on the Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz when it comes to killing off characters. That was the first …
Drive back the dark in 2023!
The sun cycle is tilting as it always does and light is increasing again. In 2023, let’s keep driving darkness back in all the ways that we can. While I …