Clik here to view.
AVBCW: Royalist, But…
With the ongoing hassle of the utility/kitchen debacle, my neighbour invited me round for dinner last week. On her coffee table was a pile of books, one of which was entitled “Royalist, But…” so whilst...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BoB: The Transcaspian Episode
Over at the Lead Adventure Fourm, my attention was drawn to another useful source book on the Malleson Mission to Transcaspia (Turmenistan these days), and a fairly comprehensive account of it by one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black Stars Rising Over Carcosa and the King In Yellow is in the forest
I closed my eyes and saw the King in Yellow moving through the forest In today’s Torygraph, and the Grauniad I found articles on the new series hitting the TV – True Detective. Finally R W Chambers’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BoB: The Czech & Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922
New book arrived, just published by McFarland. It covers the Czechoslovak Legion during the dying days of WW1 and more particularly WW1. The author has obviously used personal reminiscences of friends...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hastur la vista baby – A Season in Carcosa
Typically, having ordered some more books about He Who Shall Not be Named, the True Detective series broke. A collection of short stories and poems its a good book by Miskatonic River Press. Many of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rehearsals for Oblivion (Act 1)
Given the distraction of supervising the builders (overgrown children with power tools), I ordered and read another book of short stories on my favourite subject The King In Yellow (me). This was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Hastur Cycle
Following on from my recent book acquisitions of The King In Yellow related stories, I dug out my coy of The Hastur Cycle. This book is a collection of stories on Hastur, The King In Yellow and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BoB: Russian Roulette
Got a new book that’s just come out: Its mostly an update of Peter Hopkirk’s “Setting the East Ablaze”. It concentrates on the spies as opposed to the more wargame friendly stuff. The numerous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Snippets 1 & 2
Snippet 1: I finally got around to watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Extended edition. The extra 17 minutes are distributed through the first half of the film. There are new scenes of Bilbo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Taxes, Funding and Books
Been a bit quiet the last fortnight here. I’ve been a bit busy ! The latest Order Of the Stick book arrived, which took a day to read through, some nice new additions making it a hefty volume. That was...
View Article
