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Love the Craft

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Nathan

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi – I’d read a little bit of Lovecraft before. There’s definitely something about his weird style that I find appealing, but his writing is also kind of dense. A recurring theme is … Continue reading →

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Exhausted from Oversleep

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Nathan

Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →

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A Demon Spurned

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Nathan

I haven’t written a dedicated mythology post in a while, and I recently finished the second Aru Shah book, so I thought I might do something with one of its characters. One of the main villains in the story was … Continue reading →

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