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Easy as Pie

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Nathan

Til Death Do Us Bard: A Heart-Warming Tale of Marriage, Magic, and Monster-Slaying, by Rose Black – This is largely the story of a relationship between the adventurer Logan (nicknamed “The Bear”) and his husband, the bard Pie. There are flashbacks to how they met … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Gender, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, New Year's Day, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Technology | Tagged bards, clive barker, cows, dogs, elves, ghosts, hapexamendios, hjorleifur helgi stefansson, icelandic folk tales, imajica, merfolk, necromancers, pie 'oh' pah, rose black, rumplestiltskin, selkies, stephen king, the dark tower, the stand, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, til death do us bard, trolls, undead, wizard and glass, wizard of oz, wizards, yzordderex | Leave a comment

Tur Is Tur

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Nathan

Tanar of Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – The third book in this series uses the author as a character, an idea he used in other tales as well. The framing narrative is that Burroughs is visiting the inventor Jason … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, pellucidar, Persian, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion | Tagged amiocap, clark ashton smith, david innes, dragons, dryads, el cid campeador, griffins, impossible creatures, jason gridley, john carter, karkadanns, katherine rundell, korsars, longmas, mars, necromancers, nymphs, phundahl, ras thavas, sphinx, tanar of pellucidar, the empire of the necromancers, the garden of adompha, the isle of the torturers, the last hieroglyph, the master mind of mars, the voyage of king euvoran, tur, ulysses paxton, vad varo, valla dia, vergama, xaxa, xeethra, zothique, zothique the final cycle | 1 Comment

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

Man, You Should Have Seen Them Kicking Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Nathan

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 | 3 Comments

Sorting Out Sorcery

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Nathan

One running theme in Glinda of Oz is that there are several different types of magic in Oz, all of which have their specialties, but none of them can do everything. L. Frank Baum contrasts the fairy magic of Ozma … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Characters, Etymology, Games, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Theosophy | Tagged abrog, akbad, belfaygor, blinkie, conjo, cookywitches, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dr. pipt, dungeons and dragons, fanny the weather witch, flatheads, gayelette, glinda, glinda and the red jinn, glinda of oz, good witch of the north, gorba, grampa in oz, great book of records, gwig, handy mandy in oz, imperial squawmos, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kadj the conjurer, krumbic witch, magicians, mangaboos, miserable mesmerizer, mombi, mooj, necromancers, ojo in oz, oz magic, oziana, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, peter brown, pirates in oz, potaroo, prophecy, queen coo-ee-oh, red jinn, robert pattrick, rora flathead, soob the sorcerer, soothsayers, sorcerers, speedy in oz, supreme dictator of the flatheads, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, three adepts at magic, ugu the shoemaker, unexplored territory in oz, waddy, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, wizards, wozards, wumbo, yookoohoos | Leave a comment

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