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Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Nathan

Pandora, by Susan Stokes-Chapman – This was an online recommendation for me some time ago, probably because I was reading a lot of stuff based on Greek mythology. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the book. It uses … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Games, Greek Mythology, infocom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games, zork | Tagged archaeology, caramon majere, classic dragonlance chronicles, dragonlance, dragons, dragons of autumn twilight, dragons of spring dawning, dragons of winter night, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elves, emma hamilton, fizban, flint fireforge, ganelon silvermane, gondwane, kender, kitiara uth matar, krynn, lin carter, mages, margaret weis, pandora, pirates, raistlin majere, robots, susan stokes-chapman, tanis half-elven, tasselhoff burrfoot, the pirate of world's end, tracy hickman, william hamilton, zork aargh | Leave a comment

Road Runner, Road Runner, Runs Down the Road All Day

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Nathan

The Barbarian of World’s End, by Lin Carter – For some reason, this was the only book in this series I couldn’t find on Kindle, so I bought a used physical copy. As the title suggests, it focuses on Ganelon … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Discworld, Games, ghost roads, Greek Mythology, Humor, incryptid, Language, Mythology, Native American, Philosophy, Politics, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Urban Legends, ursula vernon | Tagged afterlife, angel of the overpass, anima mundi, bobby cross, dinosaurs, furies, ghosts, gondwane, javelina, lin carter, munrungs, persephone, Poul Anderson, ray guns, roadrunner, rose marshall, snake-eater, t. kingfisher, the barbarian of world's end, the carpet people, the high crusade, weapons | 1 Comment

A Time to Crydee

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Nathan

A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – The fighting man of this story is Tan Hadron, a soldier from Hastor in the Kingdom of Helium. I wonder if the town was named after Hastur, a character used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, History, Holy Roman Empire, Judaism, Magic, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Places, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Science, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged a fighting man of mars, ambrose bierce, apes, baudolino, blemmyae, charlemagne, cranes, crydee, cynocephali, dwarves, elves, emperor frederick barbarossa, foucault's pendulum, gagliaugo aulari, gondwane, h.p. lovecraft, hastur, holy grail, hypatia, kosmas, krondor, lin carter, magician apprentice, mars, monopods, niketas choneates, ollub vetch, palensus choy, prester john, pumperdink, pygmies, raymond e. feist, relics, riftwar saga, robert chambers, rocs, sambation river, satyrs, sciapods, spiders, tan hadron, ten lost tribes, the habitation of the blessed, the immortal of world's end, the king in yellow, three wise men, trolls, umberto eco, unicorns, william weaver | 1 Comment

How We Pierced the Forest

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Nathan

Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur’s Britain translated by Nigel Bryant – I had heard about this epic work a few years ago, but couldn’t find it until recently, at a link on the Arthurian Preservation Project at Tumblr. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Chinese, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, Families, Games, History, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Sports, Taoism, Technology | Tagged alexander the great, bazonga bird, beowulf, darnant the enchanter, demons, dragons, dyrnwyn, elric of melnibone, excalibur, fafhrd and the grey mouser, fairies, franc palais, fritz leiber, frostfire, gadifer, ganelon, gardner fox, geoffrey of monmouth, gondwane, graywand, gyraphont, hrunting, jesus, judy i. lin, julius caesar, king arthur, kothar the barbarian, lin carter, michael moorcock, nigel bryant, perceforest, rick riordan presents, round table, sleeping beauty, stormbringer, swords, the dark becomes her, the enchantress of world's end, tyrfing, verminex, weapons | Leave a comment

Dinosaurs and Dragons

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Nathan

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, Chess, Comics, edgar rice burroughs, Final Fantasy, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Plays, Poetry, Poul Anderson, Technology, Video Games, William Shakespeare, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a land apart from time, a midsummer night's dream, a midsummer tempest, a winter's tale, a.a. milne, ariel, bad sir brian botany, barsoom, black mages, caliban, dejah thoris, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dragonrouge, dragons, elemental fiends, emperor mateus, english civil war, fairies, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, gorbash, gordon r. dickson, james gurney, jennifer ward, jetan, john carter, kathans, king charles i, light warriors, lin carter, mars, memory of heroes, oberon, ogres, operation chaos, prospero, rykors, sandmirks, takashi umemura, terra magica, the chessmen of mars, the dragon and the george, the tempest, three hearts and three lions, thuvia maid of mars, titania, when we were very young, white mages, wolves | 1 Comment

Easy Camelot, Easy Ganelon

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Nathan

Yeah, I’m writing about books again. The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur, by Lev Grossman – I wasn’t sure what to expect of this modern take on the Arthurian legend, but I ended up quite liking it, despite … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Arthurian Legend, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, England, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, Islam, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Slavic, Technology, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged avalon, bazonga bird, camelot, chernobog, demons, eleggua, fairies, ganelon, geoffrey of monmouth, gondwane, king arthur, king constantine of britain, knights of the round table, lev grossman, lin carter, lord of shadows, maya and the return of the godlings, merlin, morgan le fay, naomi novik, nimue, orishas, paganism, roger zelazny, round table, rumplestiltskin, sir bedivere, sir dagonet, sir dinadan, sir mordred, sir palomides, sky island, spinning silver, staryk, terra magica, the bright sword, the wand of gamelon, the warrior of world's end, yama yama land | 1 Comment

Losing Control of the Narrative

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Nathan

Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, by Lin Carter – I believe this was Carter’s first published book, a sword-and-sorcery tale about another barbarian warrior in the same vein as Conan, whom he’d also go on to write. Set in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, edgar rice burroughs, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Religion, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged aarne-thompson index, airships, colonialism, conan the barbarian, david innes, demons, dinosaurs, elves, gr-gr-gr, hooja the sly one, ice age, indexing, laurence sterne, lemuria, lin carter, mother goose, pellucidar, snow white, the life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman, the pied piper of hamelin, thongor, thongor and the wizard of lemuria, tristram shandy, wizards | 2 Comments

The Cauldron of Story

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Nathan

There’s sort of a recurring theme to a few of the books I’ve read recently, so I’ll expound on that in these three reviews. Tales from the Perilous Realm, by J.R.R. Tolkien – This volume collects some of Tolkien’s short … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged alan lee, bilbo baggins, blunderbuss, bombadil goes boating, chrysophylax dives, dogs, dragonrouge, dragons, elric of melnibone, epic pooh, farmer giles of ham, fastitocalon, giants, hey diddle diddle, his dark materials, hobbits, lady of abundance, leaf by niggle, lin carter, lord of the rings, man in the moon, melnibone, middle-earth, moon, multiverse, on fairy-stories, philip pullman, roverandum, sexual harassment, smith of wootton major, spiders, tales from the perilous realm, terra magica, the adventures of tom bombadil, the fortress of the pearl, the hobbit, the last battle, the man in the moon, the man in the moon stayed up too late, the marvelous land of oz, the sailor on the seas of fate, the weird of the white wolf, the well at the world's end, tom bombadil, tom shippey, voluspa, weapons, william morris, wizards, wood between the worlds | 2 Comments

Snarks and Grumkins

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Nathan

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, by Walter Moers, translated by John Brownjohn – I’d only just recently heard of this German author, but this book really grabbed me. It’s a funny and absurd fantasy, narrated by a bear who … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Celtic, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, England, Fairy Tales, German, History, Humor, John R. Neill, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Religion, Scottish, Semitic | Tagged a game of thrones, a song of ice and fire, adam and eve, andrew lang, atlantes, atlantis, bible, brothers grimm, daenerys targaryen, dragonrouge, dragons, edmund spenser, faerie queene, fairies, felixmarte of hyrcania, george macdonald, george r.r. martin, jinn, john brownjohn, kesrick, korrigan, lin carter, mazikeen, oberon, orlando furioso, peris, portunes, seals, selkies, talmud, terra magica, the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear, the light princess, the mythology of fairies, the scalawagons of oz, the world guide to gnomes fairies elves and other little people, thomas keightley, trolls, unicorns, walter moers, westeros, zamonia | 7 Comments

Anthony’s Animals, Part 2: Plus Plants

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Nathan

Continuing from my earlier post on fantastic beings in Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, here are a few other sorts of mythical animals who appear but don’t get lines: a Tragelaphus, Myrmecoles, Askar, Pastincaca, Presteros, Mirag, Phalamant, Senad, … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Pokémon, Religion, Video Games | Tagged aksar, alexander the great, antelopes, antlions, apocalypse, askar, asps, bears, bestiaries, bunicorns, cebus, cecil harvey, cepub, cepus, clark ashton smith, dabbat al-ardd, dedaim trees, diodorus siculus, dipsas, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, eggsecutor, exeggcute, final fantasy iv, gustave flaubert, hell, horned rabbits, jimenju, kesrick, king solomon, lin carter, mangaboos, miraj, monkeys, moses, muhammad, myrmecoleons, pastinaca, phalmant, pliny the elder, presteros, quran, rabbits, ring of solomon, rosa joanna farrell, samuel bochart, senad, sinad, snakes, the garden of adompha, the temptation of saint anthony, tragelaphus, waq-waq tree, weasels, yokai, zabraq, zaqqum tree | 2 Comments

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Curiouser and Curiouser

Road Runner, Road Runner, Runs Down the Road All Day

A Time to Crydee

How We Pierced the Forest

Dinosaurs and Dragons

Easy Camelot, Easy Ganelon

Losing Control of the Narrative

The Cauldron of Story

Snarks and Grumkins

Anthony’s Animals, Part 2: Plus Plants

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