"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Terry Pratchett THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. Young Mort has been recruited by Death, who realized sooner or later he’s going to want some time off and will need someone to fill in... Continue Reading →
by Clark Ashton Smith “The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies.” Spanning a period of hundreds of years, these stories predominantly take place in the fictional region of Averoigne, loosely based upon France's real world Auvergne. Populated... Continue Reading →
by Jamie Delano “You could bet your soddin’ life if I was one of those poncy, media-darling super-heroes and a couple of civilians got creamed in the crossfire, no one’d even mention it. Christ, somebody would’ve bought the movie rights by now.” Written by Jamie Delano with covert art by mostly by Dave McKean with... Continue Reading →
by Charles L. Harness Gene Wolfe’s words to the publisher sells this title beautifully, reprinted here: “There are perhaps a thousand wonderful books. Most of us are fortunate if we so much as hear the titles of them in the course of a lifetime. Very few of us ever touch the covers of more than... Continue Reading →
by Charles Beaumont Satan sipped at his liquor and scrooged up his face. “This here is a highly unusual conversation,” says he. “Hmm. You want ta know what I do with souls, hey? Let’s see now: give me a minute ta study . . . Hmm. You mean, what do I do with—Well, I—That is—Hellfire,... Continue Reading →
by Harlan Ellison “There is no home, if there is no rest. There is no rest if there is no Home.” These tales are like that black and white cigarette commercial from The Simpsons--“I don't know what's in 'em; I just know I can't stop smoking 'em.” Story after story pounds the brain, and you'll... Continue Reading →
by R.A. Lafferty “A German of the last century stated that the generally bad design of eyes offered irrefutable evidence that God was a bungler.” Most of the gut-bustingly funny quotes that could be listed here are more so if you have the context from the previous sentence or two, with that context built upon... Continue Reading →
by Neil Gaiman “This is reality. Get used to it. It’s all there is.” The man has no right to write like this. Yes, there’s a craft perfected with hard work, but it just seems so easy; it must be so easy. Beneath even a small section of a seemingly whimsical tale is (always) something... Continue Reading →
by Various Authors, Mike Ashley (Ed.) “Insanity is not what you see, but what you admit to seeing. … Craziness is the compulsion to explain.” -Esther M. Friesner, “In the Realm of Dragons” This one’s big, as the more astute may have gleaned from the title. Clocking in at nearly 200,000 words this book had... Continue Reading →
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