“The Legend of Bilbo Baggins”
Hobbits dance as Leonard Nimoy sings, “The Legend of Bilbo Baggins,” and you can see it here!
Campus Conjuring
This week Guest Star Kate Laity writes about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife (1943) and two lesser known adaptations. ~~~ I’m currently writing about Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife and the 1962 film based on it, Night of the Eagle, AKA, Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962). It’s a pity there are […]
Justice and the Gentleman Thief
I have never quite been able to get a handle on recommending movies or tv shows to my mother, so when I started watching the French mystery show Lupin on Netflix and thought she might enjoy it, I second guessed myself. It started off with a vibe that […]
“How I Believe Various Characters From HBO’s The Sopranos Would React If I Tried To Teach Them The Rules Of Warhammer”
Daniel Lavery teaches characters from The Sopranos the rules of Warhammer. “Despite their many flaws (fictional, murders, etc) I believe the members of the Soprano crime family would mostly be willing to learn Warhammer if I offered to teach them.”
The Elect Stories
Chapter one of The Elect Stories is available for about $1 on Amazon. The book is Enlightenment Era inflected fantasy written by friend of the Gutter John Crye and you can read more about the process of writing it here. (Full disclosure, the Gutter’s own Carol was a […]
From the Archives: Strange Men and Magic
This week’s Guest Star Kate Laity writes about the television adaptation of Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell. Laity is an author, Medieval Studies scholar and History Witch. ~~~ At Edge-Lit 4, my publisher, Adele Wearing of Fox Spirit Books, was on a panel about Grimdark. What is ‘grim […]
The Cultural Gutter 