E-Fiction
At Feedbooks, George MacDonald's fantasy classic Lilith (1895)."Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death and salvation. Many believe MacDonald is arguing for Christian universalism, or the idea that all will eventually be saved.
Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror (this symbolistic realm is described as "the region of the seven dimensions", a term taken from Jacob Boehme). "
In free e-book formats HERE.
Audio Fiction
Newly up at Beam Me Up:"Episode 132. This week's story is the cyber strange D.M.V. by Richard Kadrey. I like the spin on crime and punishment and the ending? Harsh! But first Roy joins me with a review of the Star Wars novel The Rule of Two. Due to my lack of knowledge on the Star Wars universe we manage to get off track. Still we chat about the current crop of tv science fiction. The hour goes by fast and the story really kicks. Hope you enjoy as much as I had fun just chatting."
Streaming and in MP3 HERE.
Fantasy Art
At Wizards of the Coast, a free "martial power" fantasy art gallery featuring fantasy warriors. Art is by Steve Belledin, Leonardo Borazio, Steve Ellis, Wayne England, Jason A. Engle, Gonzalo Flores, Adam Gillespie, Brian Hagan, Jeremy Jarvis, Ron Lemen, Wes Louie, Howard Lyon, Lee Moyer, Lucio Parrillo, Jim Pavelec, Steve Prescott, Vincent Proce, Ron Spears, Ron Spencer, Stephen Tappin, Mark Tedin, Beth Trott, and Ben Wootten.Online HERE.
And Curmudgeons & Dragons has three recent old-school gaming style fantasy art pieces HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Gaming
A new issue of the old-school gaming magazine The Domesday Book #3 is available for free PDF download.Featuring "The Secret of Red Rock Hill" a one-shot adventure, new monsters, a new class (the shaman), fiction, and much more! All great for D&D 0-2nd edition, any retro-clone game, or even to convert to virtually any other fantasy role-playing game. Outstanding!
For download HERE.
Also of gaming interest is Sacnoth's Scriptorium's four-part "A Brief History of Tolkien RPGs" Of especial interest is part one which effectively destroys the myth that D&D wasn't heavilly influenced by Tolkien. Part One is HERE, Part Two is HERE, Part Three is HERE, Part Four is HERE. [via The Cimmerian]
And Greywulf's Lair reviews the free java-based virtual tabletop app. "Gametable" HERE.
Video
Hulu has the 1990 film Flatliners available for online viewing. In this Horror/SF film "medical students bring themselves near death; their experiment begins to go awry." -IMDbOnline HERE. Rated R.
Comics
The Horrors of it All has "Devil Claws" from Horrific #3.A cool story that reminded me a bit of the later sword and sorcery hero, Claw the Unconquered.
Online HERE,
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a beautifully drawn Killraven story "Mourning Prey."Cool Sci-fantasy online HERE.
At Killer Kittens from Beyond the Grave, a B&W comic book gore-fest "Brainstorm." It stars Karswell [The Horrors of it All] and his "longtime chum Todd Hignite as two writers “brainstorming” murder ideas for a story. It’s loaded with graphic violence, foul language, long hair, and is definitely not for the kiddies"Online HERE (but not for youngsters!!!)
Cool-Mo-Dee has more ghosts online in Grimm's Ghost Stories #8 from Gold Key comics.In CBZ format HERE.
And Fortress of Fortitude has a real gem today. “The Last Enemy” by Jack Kirby, from Alarming Tales #1 seems to be an early draft for his later classic series Kamandi (a childhood favorite of mine).Online HERE.
Also there, the final Kirby story from Alarming Tales #1 "Donnegan’s Daffy Chair" online HERE.
Other Cool
Music From the Monster Movies (13) looks at the 1961 SF film The Day The Earth Caught Fire, complete with illustrations.Online HERE.
Jon's Random Acts of Geekery looks at the 1950's classic Invaders From Mars, complete with posters and video.Online HERE.
Dark Worlds looks at "The Roots of Sword & Sorcery " complete with links to some early influential stories.Online HERE.
And Monster Memories has a two-page review (with spoilers) of Night of the Living Dead. This 1969 Readers Digest article was written by Roger Ebert.Online HERE.
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8 comments:
Thanks for the linkage, Dave!
No problem! Jon's Random Acts of Geekery is a great site.
Kamandi was one of my favorites as well. That's why I was so excited to finally read "The Last Enemy," which I had first heard about a few years back!
Hopefully with virtually every comic book ever made being made into movies, someone will remember Kamandi. With decent actors, it could even work as low-budget direct to DVD film.
Thanks for linking Brainstorm over at Kitty's blog Dave, very much appreciated... I let her know!
My pleasure! I've linked to Killer Kittens before and have had it in my links for some time. Great site for those over 17 or 18!
As always, every link to one of my blogs is greatly appreciated!
As long as you keep putting up such cool stuff, I'm happy to link to it.
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