Minor creatures, released from Hell for a foolish soul. Their relatively powerlessness and lack of physical detail are in deliberate mockery of the artist who sacrificed everything to give his painting life.
Read MoreNational Game Design Month: 30 posts in 30 days
For the next 30 days, the goal is to put up a post a day, filling in statistics for creatures that were described, but not numerically defined, in earlier episodes of the podcast. I may well fail, but we’ll see how it goes. These posts won’t make it intact into the podcast: they are supplemental…
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The Golgotha Dancers by Manly Wade Wellman
I had come to the Art Museum to see the special show of Goya prints, but that particular gallery was so crowded that I could hardly get in, much less see or savor anything; wherefore I walked out again. I wandered through the other wings with their rows and rows of oils, their Greek and…
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The Witch by Mary Colridge
A little bonus episode for Hallowee’n. I have walked a great while over the snow, And I am not tall nor strong. My clothes are wet, and my teeth are set, And the way was hard and long. I have wandered over the fruitful earth, But I never came here before. Oh, lift me…
Read MoreSeptember is the subtlest of months
I’m not sure why this didn’t go live properly…so here’s a link for September’s GFF collated notes. Thanks for spotting it Daniel! GFF Sep 2018 (1)
Read MoreThis month’s notes contain a few long episodes which accidentally went live in May. There are no stats – my November project this year is to try and do a series of stats every day. I’ve not cheated properly this time, so…we’ll see. 8)
Cornwall: Spontaneous Life and The Glass Eel
The strait between Cornwall and the Scilly Islands is renowned as a haunt of eels. I’d presumed these were conger eels, which live their entire lives at sea, but it seems that the common eel is also found in these waters. The common eel is at the centre of one of the weirder bits of…
Read More161 – Now available on YouTube
I’ve ported most of Games From Folktales to YouTube, so if you hate podcatchers, it’s now available in YouTube and Youtube Music. It’ll still be in any podcatcher that indexes from iTunes. As a bonus, I’ve scraped the audio out of the three useful episodes of the old vlog, and turned them into an episode. Sadly…
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Dunsany: The Reward
A short Dunsany piece in which we see either an angel, or an accuser at its work. Accusers are demons who claim to punish humans on behalf of God. Statistics are provided at the end of this post. I like that this angel, or demon, has installed neon lights in the extension he is building…
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The Phantom-Wooer by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
This is a variant of the glanconer, which is written up in Realms of Power: Faerie (page 74 and 75). Thanks to Clarica for the recording. A ghost, that loved a lady fair, Ever in the starry air Of midnight at her pillow stood; And, with a sweetness skies above The luring words of human…
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