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sThe Gold Logo edition of Chuck Dixon’s Avalon #2: Rulebreaker, is now available from Arkhaven Direct for $2.99. In other Arkhaven news, we expect to have QM:AMD #3 and Right Ho, Jeeves #3 available in print soon. We have also released the regular logo edition of Alt-Hero #3: Reprisal, in which we have modified Rebel’s newly introduced outfit so that it […]
“Now I have heard tell that death sometimes calls to a man in a voice only he can hear. Then he must rise and leave his friends and go to whatever place death shall bid him, and there meet his doom. Has death ever called to you in such a fashion?” Fafhrd might have laughed, […]
By now you’ve heard that Castalia House completed yet another hugely successful crowdfunding campaign. It’s just the latest feather in the cap for the publishing house that’s going to need a bigger hat before long. On the surface it looks like just another title – a modern day adventurer taking on a vast and shadowy […]
The Twilight Zone was a cultural phenomenon, and ever since TV producers have been stealing the formula and making bad TV with it. Though, to be honest, I don’t get the feeling that Amazon’s Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is trying to be The Twilight Zone. It’s more ripping off Black Mirror, another British-made sci-fi-centric anthology show about […]
Castalia House New Release: SHIP OF FOOLS
Monday , 1, October 2018 Just Released, News Leave a commentDr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up his research for publication. He learned that primitive societies are very different from our modern industrialised societies and that it takes a considerable amount study to understand how they work. But since […]
Sensor Sweep: Grimdark, Ray Harryhausen, Pathfinder, Tim Willocks
Monday , 1, October 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Rogue Blades): Cropley’s and Bridgland’s article in a recent issue of Grimdark Magazine got me thinking about what it is that keeps me from buying into the whole grimdark thing. I mean, I think there’s a place for it in fantasy, but it’s neither anything special or particularly new. The way I see it, grimdark […]