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Undoing the Undead

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Nathan

Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness – This is the fourth game in the series, but the number doesn’t officially appear in the title. I think there was kind of a stigma on using numbers for too many sequels at … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Gender, Humor, infocom, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, quest for glory, Russian, Science, Sierra, Slavic, space quest, Video Games, zork | Tagged ad avis, avoozl, baba yaga, domovoi, dr. brain, dr. cranium, erana, fairies, frankenstein, gnomes, gypsies, jack nicholson, leshy, machopolis, microprose, monkey island 2, mordavia, punny bones, quest for glory iii, quest for glory iv, rabbits, rex nebular, rex nebular and the cosmic gender bender, rodney dangerfield, rusalka, shadows of darkness, Street Fighter, vampires, vorpal bunnies, werewolves, wraiths | Leave a comment

More Kings, More Quests

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Nathan

In the mid-nineties, Sierra officially licensed a series of King’s Quest novels based on the adventure games. From what I’ve seen, neither Roberta Williams nor anyone else who worked on the games had any involvement in these. And really, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, king's quest, Magic, Monsters, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged craig mills, daventry, fairies, farquhar, frogs, giants, gnomes, ifrit, imps, keynon moore, king graham, king's quest ii, king's quest iii, kingdom of sorrow, kuzgu, laburnum, lizards, marella sands, mark sumner, prince alexander, princess rosella, see no weevil, slizard, spiders, telgrin, the floating castle, the pied piper of hamelin, three-toed sloks | 1 Comment

Dungeons, Drive-Ins, and Dives

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Nathan

I’ve finished a few more books recently, although it feels like I haven’t been reading quite as much as usual. It doesn’t help that my Kindle has gone missing, and I don’t know whether I lost it inside or outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Food, Games, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names | Tagged autism, delicious in dungeon, demons, dragons, dungeon meshi, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, edgar allan poe, fillory, gnomes, golems, hierophantasy, hollow earth, kyle james, laios touden, manga, mason algiers reynolds, neitherlands, racism, reynard the fox, rudy rucker, ryoko kui, senshi, slavery, south pole, taylor engel, tekelili, teletubbies, the hollow earth, the little mermaid, the magician king, the magicians, the narrative of arthur gordon pym, the voyage of the dawn treader | Leave a comment

Heroes with a Thousand Deaths

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Nathan

Is there a term for nostalgia for things you didn’t grow up with, but kind of wish you had? That’s the way I feel about old adventure video games, things that I was aware of but mostly wasn’t able to play. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Conspiracy Theories, Douglas Adams, Dreams, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Music, Sierra, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, annie larris, bermuda triangle, caponians, castle in the sky, daventry, droids b us, francis zachary mckracken, giants, gingerbread houses, gnomes, grells, hansel and gretel, indiana jones, jack and the beanstalk, kerona, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest i, leslie bennett, looney tunes, maniac mansion, mars, marvin the paranoid android, mazes, melissa china, monty python, puns, quest for the crown, robocop, robots, roger wilco, roger wilco in the sarien encounter, rumplestiltskin, sir graham, space quest, space quest collection, space quest i, star generator, the sarien encounter, the three billy goats gruff, trolls, witches, zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders | 2 Comments

Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Nathan

Pahua and the Dragon’s Secret, by Lori M. Lee – In the second book of this series, Pahua Moua, the reincarnation of the great Hmong warrior Shee Yee, wants to enroll in a school for shamans. In order to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hmong, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged aliens, ankh-morpork, arthur rackham, bad prince charlie, bookshops and bonedust, coffee, dragons, dwarves, elves, eurovision, gnomes, goblins, homunculus, john moore, legends and lattes, lori m. lee, metagalactic grand prix, necromancers, nine goblins, octopath traveler, orcs, pahua and the dragon's secret, rattkins, rick riordan presents, skeletons, space oddity, space opera, succubus, t. kingfisher, tapenti, travis baldree, trolls, unicorns, ursula vernon, wizards | 1 Comment

Naughty or Nisse

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve looked at a few Christmas gift givers over the years, but I don’t think I’ve done anything with the Nisse, an elf-like creature from Norse folklore. Their role is basically that of a household spirit, especially on a farm, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Magic, Mythology, Norse | Tagged a visit from st. nicholas, brownies, elves, fairies, gnomes, goats, hobgoblins, horses, jenny nystrom, julenisse, nisser, porridge, santa claus, sprites, st. nicholas, tomtar, yule, yule goat | 1 Comment

Listen to the Banshee

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Nathan

I’m not sure I’ve ever done a post about Banshees, of Inisherin or otherwise. I haven’t seen that movie, but I suspect it doesn’t have any literal Banshees in it. I did write before about the Bean-Nighe, which is sometimes considered a type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Celtic, Characters, Discworld, Etymology, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Television, Terry Pratchett | Tagged aiobheall, banshees, bean-nighe, birds, blarney castle, blarney stone, brigid, carrigcleena, cats, ciabhan, cliodhna, cormac maccarthy, crows, dragons, dryads, dwarves, fairies, forest of burzee, funerary rites, gargoyles, gebann the red druid, ghosts, gnomes, going postal, gryle, guards! guards!, hares, keening, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, manannan mac lir, mark haas, morrigan, moving pictures, mr. ixolite, o'caoimh, ruadan, sean mac seamas, sirens, stoats, the colour of magic, tiny toon adventures, tonn cliodhna, tuatha de danann, weasels | 2 Comments

Let’s Go Back to Your Childhood

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Nathan

There are some pretty major SPOILERS for all three of these movies, especially the first two. Skinamarink – It’s weird, because I wouldn’t necessarily say this was a good movie, but it was pretty effective in what it was trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Dreams, Families, Health, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atreyu, bastian balthasar bux, bimbo's initiation, childlike empress, gmork, gnomes, horror, lionel richie, michael ende, morla the ancient one, nome king, pica, return to oz, rockbiter, sharon lois and bram, skinamarink, small fry, swallow, the neverending story, the neverending story 2, turtles | 1 Comment

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Nathan

Kabumpo in Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – You get two Oz posts in a row this week, because I’ve finished rereading this book for its hundredth anniversary. Thompson’s second Oz book is a clear improvement over her first, and Kabumpo … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged dolls, elephants, emerald city, fairies, faleero, glegg, gnomes, illumi nation, jack pumpkinhead, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, luis ricardo falero, marriage, nome king, nomes, ozma, peg amy, prince pompadore, pumperdink, puns, rabbits, rith metic, tin woodman, trees, trot griffiths, twigs, wag the rabbit, water of oblivion, witches, wizard of oz | 7 Comments

All in How You Spell ‘Em

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Nathan

I saw something recently about the difference between the words “fairy” and “faerie.” Really, there’s no difference; the latter is just an archaic spelling. The word comes from the French for “fate,” and therefore “enchantment”; and was applied to many different … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Celtic, Discworld, Etymology, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged aleister crowley, dennis wilson wise, dwarves, elves, fairies, fairyland, gnomes, goblins, immortals, john william polidori, lee speth, lord of the rings, noldor, nomes, nymphs, orcs, ozma of oz, spelling, the baum bugle, the hobbit, the hungry tiger of oz, vampires, words | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: gnomes

Undoing the Undead

More Kings, More Quests

Dungeons, Drive-Ins, and Dives

Heroes with a Thousand Deaths

Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos

Naughty or Nisse

Listen to the Banshee

Let’s Go Back to Your Childhood

Ho Ho, Kerumph!

All in How You Spell ‘Em

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