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I just finished reading The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, an 1819 work by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, and even before I can get into...

I can remember being a kid and seeing the video for Bark At the Moon. It was the perfect mixture of cool, kitsch, and scary at that age...

My heart. Sabbath is one of my all-time favorites. Favorite is underselling it, really. They were foundational. Everything I love in...

Shadowdark is, effectively, stripped-back 5E, without skills or feats, with higher lethality, a flatter power curve, roll-to-cast...

I’ve seen Julian Glover (General Veers) perform Beowulf.

A very good and salient point, that. I saw Benjamin Bagby perform the first part of Beowulf live, accompanied by a Saxon harp, and it...

Maybe get them started younger.

Also, Beowulf is awesome when it's not being yelled at disinterested sixth graders.

Let's not forget that part of Tolkien's professional legacy was apologism for Beowulf- getting it taken more seriously as a literary...

Oh yeah...I would even go so far as to say "that a large portion of genre fiction is the equivalent of airport or beach reads, with the...

I honestly think that's one of the reasons Jane Austen's works have endured. They're very snackable. I think literary qualities don't...

Yeah, I hope no one thinks I'm disparaging airport/beach reads. I just breezed through the new Hiaasen earlier this summer and he'd...

Honestly, quite a few literary fiction novels are also short, light, or otherwise suitable for beach reading. The only definition of...

That said, a large portion of genre fiction is the equivalent of airport or beach reads, with the authors only seeking to entertain...

100%. Like, I get that people want their characters to survive. But when they get so very cautious and precious about it that they are...