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Dec
15
Cover of "Roadside Picnic". A guy in a weird egg-shaped spacesuit holds a strange mechanical device.

Year's end weird book roundup

Strugatsky Brothers, John Bellairs, Jack Vance
5 min read
Apr
16
Statuette of an inhuman figure with slitted eyes and a drooping nose

A prodigious moonfish

reviewing every single Clark Ashton Smith story, part 4
6 min read
Mar
16
Cover art depicting a fleshy pyramid, a human nervous system, and a melting wolf's head.

Mini-Reviews 1: Simak & Moorcock

The world's first multiverse crossover. Also: WEREPYRAMID
6 min read
Feb
06
grainy monochrome photograph of mysterious talismanic sculptures

the mystic syllables yop, yeep, and yoop

reviewing every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 3
4 min read
Jan
22
Book cover depicting three women in togas, all bearing knives, apparently mirror images of each other.

The Adventures of "The Adventures of Alyx"

This was in Ourdh, where all things are possible
7 min read
Jan
08
Grainy monochrome photo of an eerie, melancholy stone head

Among the Worst Ways to Die...

Reading every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 2
5 min read
Dec
17

Some non-weird non-old books

in which I briefly suspend my vow to read only the strange and obscure
6 min read
Dec
09
Grainy photograph of an eerie stone sculpture sitting among leaf litter on the ground

Dark Flowers of the Pulp Age

reviewing every Clark Ashton Smith story, part 1
7 min read
Nov
24
book cover depicting a flimsy, bone-like castle in a cold and swampy land

The Women and the Warlords (1987)

the second half of a feminist epic
8 min read
Oct
14
book cover depicting a dragon perched on a crumbling stone arch that overlooks a distant city.

The Wordsmiths and the Warguild (1987)

teenage fantasy protagonist but make him act like an actual teenage boy
7 min read