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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 |

I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire – The books in this series change between being about the magical lands in which various children find themselves and about how they deal with their experiences afterwards. As with some … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Toys, Wayward Children | Tagged a.s. byatt, andrew lang, arabian nights, avalon, bible, blaise, brothers grimm, cugel the clever, cugel's saga, dragon's breath, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, epitaph, geoffrey of monmouth, gode's story, graeae, guinevere, howl's moving castle, in an absent dream, jack vance, jane yolen, jinn, johnny gruelle, king arthur, king solomon, lost in the moment and found, merlin, merlin's booke, moon, nimue, prince prigio, queen of sheba, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, st. paul, sword of the rightful king, the canterbury tales, the djinn in the nightingale's eye, the dragon's boy, the dying earth, the eldest princess, the glass coffin, the magical land of noom, the raggedys in oz, the sword and the stone, the young merlin trilogy, three thousand years of longing, wizards |

Shine On, Golden Warrior

The Eyes of the Overworld, by Jack Vance – The first book in the Dying Earth series was a collection of short stories that take place on the same world but aren’t really related. While this one also started out … Continue reading →

Posted in Altaic, Book Reviews, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Video Games | Tagged aspara, batu and the search for the golden cup, c.t. rwizi, cagmar, charlie holmberg, cugel the clever, dombyra, erbs, grues, house of gold, jack vance, jeztyrnaq, simurgh, the dying earth, the eyes of the overworld, the hanging city, time travel, trolls, zork |

Put a Zork in It

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii |

Mazes, Memory, and Magic

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke – This is the first thing I’ve read by this author, and it was pretty fascinating. The protagonist and narrator is called Piranesi after the eighteenth century Italian artist and archaeologist (not that he knows that), … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Discworld, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged andrew lloyd webber, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy viii, gaston leroux, guyal of sfere, jack vance, les miserables, mazirian the magician, piranesi, rincewind, susanna clarke, the colour of magic, the dying earth, the phantom of the opera, tunnels of doom |