Author Archives: JE

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.

Morlock in Time and Space

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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Cave, canis.

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B+ Movie: ME & MY GAL

Executive summary: this is an interesting pre-Hays-Code comedy/melodrama that’s worth watching at least once. Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett star in this fast-moving but minor movie, directed by Raoul Walsh in 19 days and written by at least seven people … Continue reading

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Go Do That Voodoo That You Do…

Typo of the day: He said saidly (for an intended He said sadly). Saidly.

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Merv?

A gryphon holding up the corner of a sarcophagus. I took this photo in the Vatican Museum, in the now-distant summer of 2008. I was collecting gryphons that year.

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IO, SATURNALIA!

It’s a Saturnalia on Saturday! It must be extra potent.

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It Can Only Get Better from Here: “Alias Smith and Jones” (pilot)

Everything Is Better With Latin!™, and alias is Latin for “elsewhere”. At least the pilot of Alias Smith and Jones has that going for it. That and the telegenic qualities of the leads are about the only thing in this … Continue reading

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Screwball of Fire

I’m just off a couple weeks of grading at the end of the term. When I’m grading stacks of quizzes, I usually have a video running in the background to assuage the pain of this unnatural activity. This semester I … Continue reading

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Delusions of Grandeur

divinam ex eo maiestatem asserere sibi coepit; datoque negotio, ut simulacra numinum religione et arte praeclara, inter quae Olympii Iovis, apportarentur e Graecia, quibus capite dempto suum imponeret. —Suetonius, CALIGULA 22 “From that time he began to claim godhood for … Continue reading

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Christmas Mode: Initiated

We’re treed.

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