The anthology Imps & Minions, that features my short story “Bottled Up”, is free on Amazon for Halloween. If you feel like reading a massive volume of fantasy stories about imps and other small-fry minions of evil, please download it.
I hope you’ll enjoy the stories, and feel like reviewing the book!
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Abraham Merrit’s Birthday
Truth to be told, it was yesterday, but better late than never, right?
Merritt was one of the great fantasists of the first half of the 20th century, and he had an incredible influence on his contemporaries (the Weird Tales generation).
Highly imaginative and wildly eccentric, he produces a number of works that are highly recommended.
And today, remembering his birth, why not check out my favorite Merritt work, The Ship of Ishtar?
It was originally published on the Argosy All-Story magazine in six episodes, in 1924. You can find it for free on the Gutenberg Project of Australia.
Virgil Finlay did some beautiful illustration for the story in 1949, and here are three examples.
Hope & Glory – The Man that would be Quinn
A gala evening on an airship, a socialite and her fiance, a popular mentalist, a crowd of rich members of the upper class, and a skyship-load of pirates…
… as to say, the first Hope & Glory scenario, out now as a “pay what you want” (or get if for free, if you want) on DriveThruRPG.
The Blazing World
A weird one today for the Karavansara Free Library.
I found out about Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in a piece on the BBC website – trust the beeb to expand our horizons.
Margaret Cavendish was born in 1623, and is listed in Wikipedia as
aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright
Not bad, uh? Continue reading
The Karavansara Blog Mailing List
As you probably noticed, I’ve added a mailing list to the Karavansara Blog.
I’m using Mailchimp, that seems to work just fine1.
The idea is to use this tool to keep my readers… to keep YOU, in other words, up to date about my activities – new ebooks and podcasts, new stories in magazines, online events and what not – and get you the information before I post about it on the blog… if I will post it on the blog at all.
This won’t be a high-volume mailing list, and it will not have a regular schedule.
You’ll get a mail from me in your mailbox only when there’s something I think might interest you.
And no spam, absolutely no spam.
And I’ll include mailing-list-exclusive special offers, Smashwords tokens and discounts on my ebooks, or free contents – because nobody can resist a bribe, right?
And for starters, should you subscribe (and I hope you will!), you’ll get a zip file with my short story Interesting Times in both epub and mobi formats, DRM-free.
It’s a weird story, vaguely decopunk, somewhat lovecraftian, quite pulpy, set in Shanghai.
Because you know I’ve got a thing about Shanghai.
So, sign up for the Karavansara Blog Mailing List, and get your free story.
Have fun!
- but please, let me know should you experience any problem withe the mailing system! ↩
Free Ebook: End the Year with the Swamp God!
The first story in the Aculeo & Amunet Series is free for the next 72 hours. Enjoy!
Six Objects from the Turin Egyptian Museum
As I mentioned a while back, I was part of a MOOC hosted by the Manchester University, about Ancient Egypt as perceived through six objects in the collections of the Manchester Museum.
As part of the course, I had to submit a short paper covering my choice of six objects, chosen to explore a certain facet of the Ancient Egyptian history or culture.
I chose six papyruses from the collections of the Turin Egyptian Museum – or Museo Egizio di Torino, in Italian – that show a different face of Ancient Egypt… and feature magic, murder, mayhem and naked women.
Now that the course is over and my paper has been evaluated, I thought someone out there might be interested …
so here it goes
It’s a very simple, lightweight pdf document, eleven pages of loose text with some extra links for images1. You can read it online, or download it – it is distributed under a standard Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license.
I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Comments are very welcome.
Cheers!
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- but who knows – one of these nights I might try and expand it a little and do a DeLuxe version… ↩
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