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Man, You Should Have Seen Them Kicking Edgar Allan Poe

What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher – This is an adaptation and expansion of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which I read in preparation for this. It contains other references as well, with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Beatrix Potter, Book Reviews, Conspiracy Theories, Language, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Persian, Prejudice, Relationships | Tagged anthony hope, at the earth's core, bloody rose, colonialism, dragons, edgar allan poe, edgar rice burroughs, hollow earth, inkwitch, jack vance, kings of the wyld, necromancers, nicholas eames, pellucidar, rhialto the marvellous, satyrs, shamans, simurgh, t. kingfisher, tarzan, the dying earth, the fall of the house of usher, the prisoner of zenda, what moves the dead |

Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history |

Save Your Drama for the Yamas

Yama Yama Land: Where Everything Is Different, by Grace Duffie Boylan, illustrated by Edgar Keller – There were several books released in the early twentieth century that were largely imitative of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, both in story and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Buddhism, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, L. Frank Baum, Music, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ada jones, bessie mccoy, bogeyman, collin davis, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dot and tot of merryland, edgar keller, eva katherine gibson, grace duffie boylan, grampa in oz, hollow earth, karl hoschna, north pole, reilly and britton, the three twins, the wonderful wizard of oz, the yama yama man, w. w. denslow, yama, yama yama land |

The Hollow Earth Catalog

One bizarre idea that pops up from time to time in fiction and conspiracy theory is that of the hollow Earth. There are several variations on this, including that there’s a smaller sphere or multiple spheres inside the larger sphere … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Buddhism, Conspiracy Theories, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Religion, Robert Rankin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged adolf hitler, agartha, dante alighieri, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dorothy and the wizard in oz, edgar rice burroughs, heaven, hell, hollow earth, john cleves symmes, journey to the center of the earth, jules verne, pellucidar, president andrew jackson, president john quincy adams, satan, shambhala, the greatest show off earth, the yellow knight of oz |