Against The Wicked City

'The Ruin' is a fragmentary Old English poem in the Exeter Book, written by an unknown Saxon poet contemplating the ruins of a Roman...

I recently read Walter Scott's autobiography - an unfinished fragment that I found bundled in with my grandfather's edition of Lockh...

I like poetry. That's probably pretty obvious. I'm going to use this post to write about some of the things that I value about it. T...

Illustration to 'The Seafarer', by Jila Peacock. It's almost Christmas time, and at Christmas I always find myself thinkin...

So, following my post on a dungeon description from 1843 , here's a hex description from 1844... There's a lady - an earl's d...

First off: in case you've not seen it already, Frog God Games are doing a new printing of  Swords and Wizardry, with new art by Abigal L...

Geoffrey Hill, who was probably the single greatest living British poet, died yesterday at the age of 84. His death didn't come as a sho...

I was preparing an extract from the 14th-century chivalric romance  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for a class the other day when I sudd...

On the Xortlaq, or Azerbaijanese Vampire The death of the person who is difficult  xortlamasının  (xırtlamasının)  is thought to be mor...

'Sudden deep-groan'd the yawning earth; A ghastly Phantom rear'd his head! Grim Tart'rus gave the monster birth; On his ...