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I always go all-in on the Halloween season - movies, books, even my gaming sessions get spooky adventures when I can work them in...

My favorite seasonal read might be Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. It's divided into one chapter for each day of October...

I don't normally do anything different, reading wise, for "spooky season," but I have me some Stephen Graham Jones I could read, and...

I finished reading Scott's Trouble and Her Friends. Really enjoyed it, with all its 90s vibes. The epilogue left me feeling somewhat...

TIL (ok, two days ago, but I was busy with work) that bear dogs are a thing. (Ok were a thing). Ancient mammals that looked like bears...

Spinning this out of the 6E thread because, well it isn't about 6E. Anyway -- much is often made of "player skill" and "OSR" and how...

Today I learned about the symbiosis and co-evolution of figs and wasps, about how the female wasp is impregnated in the egg before...

Reading Cassandra’s stories can give you many such moments, yeah. :) Probably the Cassandra Khaw book least likely to give you a...

The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw is not my usual bag - a dark visceral body and existential horror Scholomance story - but it...

Thanks @Autumnal! Now I wish I still had my copy - I donated it some years ago.

Thanks! I was just a worker bee. @Autumnal was the man behind the curtain.

Wasn't there a game brought up here on EN World where the player characters are collecting ingredients for magical jams (very cozy...

Not that they were out and out cozy, but some of the most tense and memorable games I’ve run have been ones where the stakes were super...

Oh, they reminds me: Neil Peart’s travel books are all great. He loved being out on the road in his motorcycle, seeing new sights...

Not sure if fits bill but I always enjoy David Attenborough's ones, whether autobiographical like Life on Air, or his reading of his...