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Rose Knot: An Arthurian Tale by Kari Sperring (book review).
Not many people connect the Orkneys to Arthurian legend but King Lot of Orkney was married to Arthur’s sister, Morgause, it seems and…
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Mayday: dark fantasy movie (trailer).
Here’s an odd little fantasy/scifi movie called Mayday, which looks like a modern update on the Sirens’ island in the Odyssey, mixed with…
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The Godstone by Violette Malan (book review).
Arlyn Albainal was very surprised to be named executor of his cousin Xandra’s will. Arlyn hadn’t been Xandra for years and surely would…
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Swords & Steam Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (book review).
‘Swords & Steam: Short Stories’ is another big collection from Flame Tree Publishing that mixes old and new stories, this time in the…
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Vampires: Fantasy Art, Fiction And The Movies (Gothic Dreams) by Russ Thorne (book review).
Before we got onto Flametree’s booklist, ‘Vampires: Fantasy Art, Fiction And The Movies’ by Russ Thorne was on my list to look at.…
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2021, Volume 141 #756 (magazine review).
Often, it is the stories by established writers that draw a new reader to a magazine. In this case it is Michael Swanwick…
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Dreaming In Quantum And Other Stories by Lynda Clark (book review).
‘Dreaming In Quantum And Other Stories’ is a short book of short and slightly odd stories. There are 15 stories in all ranging…
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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series: glorious new legends in the making, or just milking the Money Moo Cow?
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series is on the way: will Jeff Bezos bring us a series of glorious new legends in…
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The Mummy: a fantasy action adventure movie retrospective (video).
CD drops in to revisit The Mummy, the 1999 film starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O’Connor, and Arnold…
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Myth & Magic: The Art Of John Howe (book review).
I can’t recall where I saw John Howe’s art originally. Probably the ‘Dragon Art’ book from FlameTree recently and curious enough to see…
July 2021
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The Green Knight (a David Lowery fantasy film review by Daniel Greene).
Daniel Greene sits down in front of the visually stunning movie The Green Knight by David Lowery, based on the 14th-century poem of…
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Jungle Cruise (fantasy adventure movie: a Mark Kermode film review).
Jungle Cruise is the new fantasy adventure movie from Disney, kind of like The African Queen meets Indiana Jones. Dwayne Johnson plays Captain Frank “Skipper” Wolff, a…