Lexicalibur was written by Penny Arcade folks Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik; it is a collection of children’s poetry that reminds me a little of Where The Sidewalk Ends, if Shel Silverstein was a hardcore Dungeons & Dragons player. It is very cute, and I hope to get good use out of it with regard to my two children. It’s never too early to teach the basics of adventuring.
I may or may not have uttered a twelve-letter obscenity denoting supreme surprise when hearing this news.
While researching his new book, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, author Alec Nevala-Lee learned that Campbell had actually written a novel-length version of [“Who Goes There?”], which he cut down for publication in the magazine.
Spotting a reference in one of Campbell’s surviving letters to a box of manuscripts the editor had sent to Harvard for archiving, Nevala-Lee tracked down the box at the university and discovered that it contained Frozen Hell, the full-length original version of Campbell’s story.
It looks gorgeous.
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. Annotated by Kenneth Hite. Artwork by Samuel Araya. This beautiful, deluxe, limited edition brings new potency to its stories of madness and romance. Pre-order now. PDF in Dec 2018. Hardback in spring 2019. https://t.co/AjtjIJnjhx
— Arc Dream Publishing (@ArcDreamLLC) October 23, 2018
It also looks like ninety bucks; which is reasonable, yet expensive. You get something like the annotated* King in Yellow hardback for the swank. And you probably get the PDF for considerably less, so that you minimize the damage to the book by opening, breathing on, or looking at it for too long.
Moe Lane
*By Ken Hite!
PS: You know what might get me to a place where I could buy it? Why, yes: more people on the Patreon! Tell your friends!
Yeah, yeah, I finally got sucked back into Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden wizard mysteries. Storm Front is only three bucks on Kindle, so there you go? What’s that? Yeah, I know, that’s how they suck you in. I figured that it’d happen eventually.
https://twitter.com/TeawithTolkien/status/1053022255180128261
Note that I did not type ‘inaccurate.’
Baen has made available ‘See of Darkness;’ it’s a short story set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series. It’s set in the Vatican, and… well. Let’s just say that it’s appropriate to the Halloween season. Not nihilistic, but sometimes in BTR the story can get a little strong in the ‘heavy [ordnance] used without guilt because they’re zombies’ department and not so much in the ‘horror’ aspects. This story is just a bit more, ah, medieval.
But it’s good! Just, you know, horror and all that. If you read this series… well, you’re probably there.
And it’s a nice, thick book, too. Then again, this was the blowout comic event Kate Ashwin’s been building up to with Widdershins (19th century magical Europe webcomic; quite good) for some time now, so that’s to be expected. Looking forward to reading this again.
Why not? Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan is free on the Kindle. It’s short, and one of the horror classics. I’m trying to remember if I’ve read it, though: horrible indictment of me if I haven’t, but there are so many things out there to read and watch and listen to. Still: free book is free book, and it fits the theme for this month.
I’m picking Tim Powers’ Romantics-vampire novel The Stress of Her Regard because, as I noted years ago, the truly terrifying thing about the book was how much sense it made. It was sort of like that moment in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies where the author realized that putting a British regiment in the countryside to fight a zombie outbreak filled an obvious hole in the original plot. …Well, maybe not, but The Stress of Her Regard is still one of the best books Tim Powers ever wrote. Check it out.
