Appendix N Archaeology: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
Sep14

Appendix N Archaeology: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series

Our Appendix N Archaeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page.Appendix N Archaeology: The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Seriesby Michael CurtisMore than a decade before Gary Gygax assembled...

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Appendix N Archaeology: William Hope Hodgson
Nov14

Appendix N Archaeology: William Hope Hodgson

Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page.Appendix N Archeology: William Hope Hodgson by Michael Curtis In the now famed Appendix N, Gary Gygax lists roughly thirty authors whose...

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Ballantine Adult Fantasy: William Hope Hodgson
Jul26

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: William Hope Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson, godfather to cosmic horror and ghost detectives alike, had two books reprinted in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line, The Boats of the Glen Carrig and The Night Land. The Night Land was published in two volumes because of its length — more controversially it received heavy editing from series editor Lin Carter to render Hodgson’s deliberately difficult prose more accessible. Both covers from Robert...

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William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland
Mar12

William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderlandby Bill Ward“Presently, I saw, rising up out of the ruddy gloom, the distant peaks of the mighty amphitheatre  of mountains, where,  untold ages before, I had been shown my first glimpse of the terrors that underlie many things; and where, vast and silent, watched by a thousand mute gods, stands the replica of this house of mysteries — this house that I had seen swallowed...

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A Look At William Hope Hodgson
Nov13

A Look At William Hope Hodgson

A Look at William Hope Hodgsonby Bill WardThe English writer William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) is an author whose influence on those that came after him greatly exceeds his current renown among readers. This despite being hailed as one of the originators of Cosmic Horror, the sub-genre of horror fiction most readily associated with H.P. Lovecraft, and The Dying Earth tradition of science fantasy as later typified...

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