Now that I have your attention: Munseys is a website that has free, out of print pulp fiction... over 1600 volumes and counting. Granted, most of them seem to be of the soft-core or exploitation variety, but there are some gems buried in here, such as a few works by Algernon Blackwood and Robert E. … Continue reading Free, Out of Print Pulp Fiction
Author: cjcasey
Writer, Reader, Traveller, Knitter, Eater
Choosing the Right Thread
Last week, Matthew Rettino of the excellent site The Vinciolo Journal, left a comment on one of my articles: [I]t’s a genre that’s here to stay, for sure. One of the reasons being, that most of history is speculation. And fantasy is speculative literature. As someone who is both a student of literature and of … Continue reading Choosing the Right Thread
Time Travel and Historical Fantasy
Last week we talked about Historical Fantasy, and after bringing up my definition of the distinction between Alternate History (involving something that could really happen, but didn't, such as Germany losing the Franco-Prussian War, or Kennedy surviving the assassination attempt) and Historical Fantasy (involving something that couldn't happen, like dragons serving in the Air Force, … Continue reading Time Travel and Historical Fantasy
Bride of the Swamp God!
One of our new friends, Davide Mana of the Karavansara blog, just published a novella at Amazon. I've just finished reading it and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. As far as I can tell, it's his first published story, and I hope it's not his last. It's positively dripping with everything good … Continue reading Bride of the Swamp God!
Sword and Sorcery: ElfQuest
Most of what we focus on, here in our office located in the ninth dungeon level of the Way Too Fantasy Tower of Despair, are books. Sometimes, we'll talk about movies. And I believe we discussed Sandman and Preacher once upon a time. But today I'm going to cover comics. Specifically, fantasy comics. Extraspecifically, ElfQuest, … Continue reading Sword and Sorcery: ElfQuest
Karavansara
I've spent this morning reading a new (to me) blog called Karavansara. Written by a 'freelance paleontologist' and fantasy pulp author in Italy, he covers pulp, fantasy, sword and sorcery, and writing. Mi piace questo blog... benvenuti a Way Too Fantasy, Davide... (I apologise for my crappy Italian... I left Italy in 2003 and regretfully … Continue reading Karavansara
Swords? Sorcery? Heroes? Dungeons? Dragons? Sign me up.
Creeping into the deepest darkest basement of the old neglected shop, Seejay the Valiant kept his eyes on the target ahead of him. For years, he had heard of the legendary tomes and treasuries of ancient knowledge, but he had never before dreamed of being in the same room as them (let alone having a … Continue reading Swords? Sorcery? Heroes? Dungeons? Dragons? Sign me up.
Timecrimes
I'm going back to the list I published some time back of non-USAnian science fiction films for this article. One of the films on there that I'd heard of but never quite gotten around to seeing was the Spanish film Timecrimes. And there really was no excuse for it... I have a bit of a … Continue reading Timecrimes
The Fantastic Tele-Vision Machine: Orphan Black
(I apologize, somewhat, for the hyperbolic title. I've been reading a lot of golden-age science fiction and the semantics tend to be a little bit contagious. Then again, one should never apologize for reading golden-age science fiction) About five minutes into the third episode of the Canadian TV series Orphan Black, the main character, Sarah … Continue reading The Fantastic Tele-Vision Machine: Orphan Black
Read This Now: Sword in the Storm
I have a few more movie reviews for my irregular series on lesser-known works of fantasy, but I've been on vacation all week. However, reading and recommending a lesser-known or hidden work of fantasy is another thing I've wanted to do thanks to similar columns that used to appear in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Like … Continue reading Read This Now: Sword in the Storm
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