If I had to pick a “most common adjective” placed in front of the world “fantasy,” the first one that springs to mind is “epic.” We often expect fantasy tales to envelop us in their world-building, labyrinthine plots, and quests that take our heroes over hill and dale on a quest to defeat the villain or slay the dragon. […]
When we talk about “classics,” we’re usually referring to the ancient tomes we studied (or were at least threatened with) in school. And a lot of those books are pretty fantastic, in the oldest sense of the word, telling stories of magic, monsters, and epic quests, from The Odyssey, to Beowulf, to Macbeth. Yet contemporary epic fantasies in the […]
School’s out for the year, the weather has broken into full blown summer, all mosquitoes and sunburn, and I’ve become intensely nostalgic for summer vacation, those long months when I was made out of nothing but time. Man, but did I get some reading done, huddled in front of a fan on those days it […]
The promise of cryptozoology is the fantastical, the wondrous, the strange. What if the Loch Ness Monster was real? What about Bigfoot, or the Yeti? The world is already weird enough; how much stranger and more fascinating would it be if such creatures existed? (One of the delights of cryptozoology, of course, is that once in […]
