World Building and Woolgathering

Another book up for discussion - curiously, once again with an introduction by Neil Gaiman : Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood . I...

Punth: where the scribes records details of the latest five-year plan on clay tablets beneath the eyes of watchful green four-armed aristo-c...

Over at False Machine a few months ago there was a few articles dealing with Robin Hood in various works of fiction and characters inspir...

I am rather late to the party on this; much has been said (and conclusions drawn ) about Silent Titans . Despite having contributed to the ...

The book in question is a 1945 Atlas of the Soviet Union. Well, it's not purely the content. I mean, it is interesting - but feel ...

Crystals are verboten ; taboo for the latter-day OSR (or other current term ) designer. The Artpunkifex Maximus has proclaimed it . But ...

At a market second-hand bookstall I found a copy of Vita Sackville-West's The Eagle and the Dove . I have no significant interest in her...

If we consider a number of cases from real-world history and religion: The Sacred Geese of Rome. 'What's that, Mr Hissy? Timmy...

A bid to produced golems divorced from the elemental concept - and hopefully with some interesting structural elements. These aren't as ...

A recent exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, near me in Cambridge occasioned a visit. This set out some of the work of William Nicholson ...