Unreal Worlds: The Man from Carcosa
Jul 03
Everybody’s got secrets. Some are told, and become something less than secret. Some, of course, are never told. They are taken to the grave, held tight in human hearts until those hearts stop beating. And then there are the secrets that really matter: the secrets so strange, so terrible, that the people who hold them just disappear, falling out of reality in the infinitesimal space between...
Unreal Worlds – Abominable Armies
Nov 11The air is cool and crisp, snow is in the air (for at least some of you dear readers), and for the Illuminerdy, the dying of the year means it’s time to talk about monsters. There are few more famous than the abominable snowman of the Himalaya — the Yeti. Also called the Meh-teh, Mi-go, Mirka, Kang Admi, and the Jobran, the Yeti has been part of the Western monstrous lexicon since at...
Unreal Worlds: King of the Wild Frontier
Oct 07
We’ve previously touched briefly on what great game fodder alternate histories can be, and noted at length that you can easily hide an alternate history in the dimly shadows of the world’s established story. Regardless, the best alternate histories need compelling characters: why not start with the King of the Wild Frontier? Almost everyone knows at least a little about Davy Crockett,...
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