![]() ![]() ![]() Howard’s most famous sword-and-sorcery adventures, “Red Nails.” As a bonus feature that story, as well, is included in this volume. The first new Conan novel in more than a decade, Blood of the Serpent leads directly into one of Robert E. When she runs afoul of an exiled Stygian noble, however, things take a deadly turn, embroiling them both in the schemes of a priest of the serpent god Set. Valeria’s reputation is that of a deadly swordswoman, a notoriety she quickly proves to be accurate. I first read the conan books of Robert E Howard nearly 30 years ago.So when I saw they where being re-released I couldnt wait to revisit the world of Conan. ![]() In a Sukhmet tavern he encounters one soldier in particular-Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a veteran of freebooters with whom Conan also sailed, launching raids out of the Barachan Isles on the Western Sea. Howard, the barbarian seemed like a tremendously wily, strong, tough and agile man thrown into fantastic adventures. As sword for hire for a mercenary troop, Conan finds himself in Sukhmet, a filthy backwater town south of the River Styx considered “the arse-end of Stygia.” Serving in the company known as Zarallo’s Free Companions, he fights alongside soldiers of fortune from Zingara, Koth, Shem, and other lands-a hard-handed band of killers loyal to anyone who pays them well. Blood in His Wake In the Conan stories of Robert E. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In the consumer world, film may have been sunk by digital technology, but wet black-and-white darkroom photography is alive and well in academia. Reports of the death of analog photography have been greatly exaggerated. © Kimberly Ly Grace Oxley from Hendrix College used a Pentax K1000 with Kodak Tri-X 400 film 11×14-inch Ilford Multigrade fiber print. © Lee Rogers A photogram by Kimberly Ly, also of Hendrix, on Oriental variable contrast glossy fiber paper, 11×14 inches. © Christian Rodriguez Visually impaired Hendrix student Lee Rogers can’t use the darkroom, but the lessons of the traditional process were essential to this digital work. © Andrew Jarman Christian Rodriguez of Savannah College of Art and Design used a Mamiya RZ ProII and Fuji Acros 100 film he printed on 11×14-inch Ilford fiber paper. Printed on Ilford Variable contrast FB glossy paper. © Hank Ketelsen Andrew Jarman of the Pratt Institute photo department shot this in Oregon using a Graflex 4×5 and Delta 100 film. Hank Ketelsen of Savannah College of Art and Design created this silver gelatin photogram in the darkroom on 11×14-inch Oriental RC paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shaped UFO in Pike County, Kentucky, October 16th, 2012 Return of the Kentucky Goblins: New Leads in a Case of Strange Creatures, Crashed UFOs, and the Men in Black ‘Dark Noise VII part 2’ by Truckstop Dave ‘Angry Small Town Scene 6’ by Truckstop Dave ![]() ![]() Time to take to the shadows, Nightowls! The goblins are amongst us and ethereal voices are speaking through your podcatcher on tonight’s episode of Midnight in Kentucky High Strangeness in Hellier, Featuring The Kentucky Goblins. In the introduction, we continue our discussion of the odd mystery booms heard in Kentucky and elsewhere as of late, with the most recent notable happening in Jackson County at the end of January. In addition to discussing our ideas, theories, and opinions of the adventures of the Alien Cave Base Task Force, we contribute our own thought provoking research to this strange ongoing case right in the edge of Appalachian Plateaus. This series is five episodes of eastern Kentucky high strangeness centered around those elusive Bluegrass entities, the Kentucky goblins. ![]() Listen to “High Strangeness in Hellier Featuring The Kentucky Goblins” on Spreaker.Įpisode Title: High Strangeness in Hellier Featuring The Kentucky GoblinsĮpisode Description: It’s the midnight hour, once again! Tonight we’re sitting down to discuss the recent Week in Weird docuseries, Hellier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Campbell has a way of taking the common and mundane in our lives and turning them into something dreadful and terrifying. He is the author of The Parasite, The Face That Must Die, Obsession, Ancient Images, The Influence, The Hungry Moon, and many other novels, as well as the ground-breaking collections, Cold Print, Demons by Daylight, and the recent Ghosts and Grisly Things among others. Ramsey Campbell has won more awards for his fiction than any other living writer. Now Patrick must convince Roy his suspicions are real, and that Roy and his girlfriend have awakened something dark that wants to take hold of the world. ![]() ![]() Roy and his girlfriend continue their search, but Patrick knows something just isn’t right. ![]() Though initially intrigued by these magical sites, Patrick begins to fear them. Now grown, Patrick finds his aunt’s journals, which also capture the fascination of his son Roy. Thelma was an artist, and her later works took a turn to the occult. While staying with his aunt Thelma when he was in his teens, Patrick learned she had traveled to magical sites. “Campbell has a way of taking the common and mundane things in our lives and turning them into something dreadful and terrifying.” ![]() ![]() Born in Yogyakarta, she moved to Jakarta from an early age with her parents to lead better lives. While protagonists of choose-your-own-adventure narratives are typically obscured to allow room for the reader’s subjectivity, the narrator in The Wandering is clearly defined, bringing instead a sense of role-play. The wandering narrator, addressed in the second person befitting the conventions of the form, travels along multiple routes to Berlin, New York, and even outer space as she faces ordeals that illustrate the privileges of going abroad and the limitations of individual choice. ![]() “Travelling is the most ancient desire”, writes Intan Paramaditha in her first novel, a choose-your-own-adventure story published this February as global mobility ground to a halt. ![]() The story begins in Jakarta, a hubbub of street vendors, motorbikes, and calls to prayer from mosque loudspeakers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have the feeling that yet again I have stumbled into the middle of the much-loved and long-adored series – and once I give a big hearty, “WTF?!†folks will come out of the woodwork to tell me how very, very wrong I am. That last one is what gets me with the book I just finished, “Night Pleasures†by Sherrilyn Kenyon, part of the Dark-Hunter series. I am close to calling the strip mine of vampire romance closed because there are no more gems to be found in this post-Buffy world. ![]() I hate plotlines that are so over-mined for originality that they are predictable. I hate stupid heroes and stupid heroines.ģ. I’m going to bust out the cranky and let you all in on some things I hate when I read romance of any genre.ġ. So I’m in a pretty foul mood, and I probably shouldn’t write a review in this magical state, but to hell with it. ![]() ![]() So I sit and cough and sneeze and make disgusting wet noises with my throat and wish I could go home and snork and wheeze in the privacy of my own home with my own dog who doesn’t care if I make nasty old people noises so long as I rub his belly while I do it. Moreover, I am cranky because being sick is the suck and I can’t figure out the right combination of pharmaceuticals to at least hide my symptoms. I have more phlegm than I care to think about, and I am over being tired. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While in Aspen Creek Mercy grew romantically close to Samuel Cornick, the Marrok's son. At this development Margi sent Mercy to Aspen Creek to be raised by a friend of her grandfather's brother, Bran Cornick. When Mercy was three months old, her mother came across a coyote pup in Mercy's crib. The daughter of a Blackfeet Indian and a white teenage mother ( Margi), Mercedes lived with her mother for the first few months of her life. She doesn't like letting people she cares about be in danger alone but at the same time has trouble accepting help from anyone even when she needs it. Mercy is described as being stubborn, headstrong, independent, hardworking, thoughtful, and caring. Identifying marks include a tattoo of a coyote paw print on her belly, below her navel, buckshot scars on her behind, and a white burn mark on her right cheek that looks like war paint. She has a muscular build from karate training, tanned skin, and mostly Anglo features from her mothers side. Mercy is described in the novels as being of average height, around 5'6", and average weight with long, straight, dark brunette hair (often kept in braids). ![]() ![]() ![]() Alan Moore took Swamp Thing to new heights in the 1980s with his unique narrative approach. Created out of the swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world's self-destruction. With real-life issues explored against a backdrop of horror, Swamp Thing's stories became commentaries on environmental, political, and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history. ![]() comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing. All six volumes of Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, the writer of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, in one gorgeous slipcase box set! Before Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. ![]() ![]() (Mark Shea, in his recent CWR article, “The Messiah We Need, Not the Messiah We Want”, delves into this very nicely.) For my part, I’ve tackled this in detail on two specific fronts. And a number of those folks are curious about, or even obsessed by, seemingly original explanations about the “truth” regarding Jesus. ![]() Anyone who follows the field, even as a curious amateur, knows this to be the case.īut-and it’s an important “but”-99.9% of people don’t know this. If there is one thing I have learned in reading many different books on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, it is this: there is nothing-absolutely nothing-new under the sun when it comes to grand theories and elaborate meta-narratives attempting to explain (or explain away) the man from Nazareth. My personal library has an entire bookcase of works of Christology, ranging from left to right, high to low, liberal to conservative. But the study of Scripture and the specific study of Christology has been of great interest to me since I was a young man. I am not a Scripture scholar, nor do I play one on television. Each individual recreated him in the image of his own personality.” - Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906) “And so each subsequent epoch in theology found its own ideas in Jesus, and could find no other way of bringing him to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Diving back into Amanda Hocking's world here was difficult. It was during my first year of blogging, I believe, and things were off to a rocky start. Her decision has consequences that reach farther than she'd everĬontains some spoilers from My Blood Approvesįirstly noted, it has been years since I last read My Blood Approves! In fact, I don't even have a review of it up. Tragedy happens, Alice finds herself struggling with a terrible choice. Worse still, she's not even sure what she wants with Peter. she's not sure where he's at, or what he wants with Vampire boyfriend - keeps her at arm's length to keep her safe. Supernatural and real life with her brother Milo. Fate - the second installment in the My Blood Approves series.īonham thinks she's finally found a balance in her life between the ![]() |