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Category Archives: fantasy
Things to come… In Twenty Twenty-one
New years resolutions are always an exercise in futility and is 2020 taught us anything, its that all plans for a year are built on foundations of sand. This time last year I wrote that I hoped to write four … Continue reading
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Howard vs Lovecraft…
It is a reasonably undisputable fact that HP Lovecraft is more well known now than his most of his literary contemporary’s from the golden age of pulp scifi/fantasy magazines back in the 1920’s and 30’s. Indeed, were you asked to … Continue reading
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Harvey VI: Erupting from the grave
Writing is a solitary activity, which suits me just fine. Anti-social introverts make good writers, and good writers tend (though not exclusively) to be anti-social introverts. This is not a bad thing, for we take flight in worlds of the … Continue reading
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Tagged amreadinghorror, amwritingsteampunk, anthologies, fantasy, Harvey Duckman, harveyduckman, horror, newbooks, newreads, sciencefiction, scifi, steampunk, steampunk fantasy
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A Harvey Christmas to all
Christmas is coming, the goose is looking worriedly at the chopping block, good will to all men, women, and those who define themselves as neither. the fat bloke in red with a beard you could lose reindeers in is preparing … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, amreadinghorror, amreadingscifi, bookblog, bookcovers, books, goodreads, greatreads, harveyduckman, indie, indie publishing, indiebooks, indienovels, indiereads, indiewriter, reading, reads, retroreads, whoisharveyduckman, writers, writerslife, writing
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The November Indie reads pile
October came and went with twelve books, as i revisited David & Lynn Eddings grand opus as I am want to do every decade or so. As an exercise, rereading a huge fantasy epic with the eyes of a writer … Continue reading
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Fantastic Flash Fiction
Its October, the leaves are falling, the witches are abroad, and I’ve opened the blog up to guest writers again. Yes its Indie October. Throughout October some old favorites among my guests will be returning along with some new voices. … Continue reading
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Echoes of a Cursed Ship
Its October, the leaves are falling, the witches are abroad, and I’ve opened the blog up to guest writers again. Yes its Indie October. Throughout October some old favourites among my guests will be returning along with some new voices. … Continue reading
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The Thing On The Doorstep : TCL 64
It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than … Continue reading
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Tagged bookblog, bookreview, cthulhu, horror, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, mythos, reads, retroreads
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Awesome and unexpected connections
I’ll let you in on a secret here, some authors are occasionally known to partake of a nip or two of rum. Also, sometimes these same authors will engage in late-night chats with another author who may or may not … Continue reading
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The Shadow over Innsmouth / TCL #61
While many of Lovecraft’s stories were published in periodical magazines like Weird Tales in his lifetime, only one was ever published as a book, even then the whole print run was only 200 copies each priced at a dollar. It … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, amreadinghorror, call of cthulhu, cthulhu, innsmouth, Lovecraft, lovecraftian, Nyarlathotep, reading, reads
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