Category Archives: Morlock

A Ganelon By Any Other Name…

Posted on April 11, 2023 by JE

Typo of the day (which I discovered in an old slideshow from earlier this year): Gabolen. I’d intended to write Ganelon (the sinister traitor-knight in Charlemagne’s court). But Gabolen sounds like a pretty convincing name; maybe he/she/it will appear in … Continue reading →

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The Weird of the Worm

Posted on March 19, 2023 by JE

Reading Snorri’s account of Ragnarǫkr this noon over blunch, and I was struck by this poetic phrase in Snorri’s prose: Þórr berr banaorð af Miðgarðsormi “Thor bears the baneword from Midgard’s Serpent”. Old Norse orð is cognate with English word, … Continue reading →

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Them Dry Bones

Posted on March 9, 2023 by JE

I misread an Old Norse word bœnhús (“begging from house to house”) as beinhús (“bonehouse”), and now I can’t get that wrong word out of my head. Maybe, in an upcoming story, Morlock will be trapped in a bonehouse. It … Continue reading →

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More Morlock

Posted on March 2, 2023 by JE

I made a couple of sales in February: “The Venomous Sands of Amas Lamaar” to Tales from the Magician’s Skull (slated for issue 13) and “Evil Honey” to Old Moon Quarterly (slated for issue 3).

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Goa, Going, Gone

Posted on January 31, 2023 by JE

I was scrolling through an electronic edition of a venerable Latin dictionary, which is a totally normal thing to do, and I was brought up short by the entry for superstitio: “excessive fear of the goas; unreasonable religious belief.” I … Continue reading →

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Morlock in Time and Space

Posted on December 20, 2022 by JE

Just in time for Christmas (and the Solstice), Tales from the Magician’s Skull No. 9 arrived. It contains a Morlock story I’m especially proud of–“Three Festivals”. Among other things, it’s an homage to the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, whose “Three … Continue reading →

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Is This Thing On? How About That Other Thing?

Posted on September 16, 2016 by JE

Thing 1: I return to the Blog Gate, writing about Phyllis Eisenstein’s brilliant Born to Exile. Thing 2: I’ve got a little series of e-books going. The first is Ambrosii, out now from Amazon worldwide. The second one, dubbed Monsters, … Continue reading →

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Aged in Oaken Heroes: Heroic Fantasy & Imagined History

Posted on October 10, 2012 by JE

What is the proper setting for heroic fantasy? Sometimes it seems that the Heroic Age is like the Golden Age of Science Fiction: twelve (according to the now-elderly wisecrack). Anyway, it is widely agreed that heroic fantasy is set in … Continue reading →

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TL;DR?

Posted on August 1, 2012 by JE

Rene Sears interviewed me for today’s edition of the Pyr newsletter, Pyr-A-Zine, in which I sound off on political systems in fantasy, history (true or feigned), what is and is not a trilogy, and the proper way to eat a … Continue reading →

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And Now… This!

Posted on July 25, 2012 by JE

Courtesy of Pyr-O-Mania, here’s the full-cover spread for A Guile of Dragons.

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