Sometime this year – people better informed than I will know the precise date – James M. Ward's Metamorphosis Alpha will celebrate its ...

Though this blog has, since its inception nearly eighteen years ago, been a staunch advocate for recognizing and celebrating the debt  Dunge...

[ The original version of this post appeared more than four years ago. I thought, in light of this month's theme, that it might be wort...

Multiple sources report that Tim Kask, TSR’s first full-time employee, died on December 30 at the age of 76 after a short illness.  Although...

Clark Ashton Smith occupies a peculiar and sometimes uneasy place in the history of fantasy literature. He is neither obscure nor widely cel...

Despite the fact that David Cook's 1981 adventure, Dwellers of the Forbidden City , is one of my favorite D&D modules of all time, i...

I've written before about my affection for Arthur Collins , who wrote a couple dozen or so articles in the pages of Dragon  during the p...

H. P. Lovecraft’s “What the Moon Brings” is another very short work and, though imperfect in many respects, it nonetheless offers a concent...

Over at Advanced Grognardia , I've offered up a small Christmas gift  in the form of a new version of an old monster  from the early day...