For the longest time I was sure I'd invented The Spooks of Bottle Bay. If i didn't own a few episodes on VHS I'd have been completely sure of it. I used to watch it obsessively, this one video tape. My parents could never find another and so I saw the same four episodes on a … Continue reading Haunted Coast – Growing up with the Spooks of Bottle Bay
Dominions is extraordinary in scope. It’s a fantasy game series by Illwinter Games, now in its fifth iteration, that eschews Tolkienesque high fantasy for something steeped in real-world traditions of folklore and myth. All of them. That’s very nearly not exaggeration. Each in-game nation is meant to evoke a specific facsimile or fusion of historical … Continue reading Playing Dod – The Detail of Dominions
What if you had a great idea but nobody with the cash and influence to make it happen agreed? What if you had something interesting to say but no editor would give you the space to say it without chopping it into a numbered list? You might start a YouTube channel or a blog, publish an … Continue reading No Cartrdige and Alternative Funding
When you think of black metal - if you think of it at all - you might think of death and darkness, misery and misanthropy. It’s been demonised by Christians, feared by parents, scorned even within the wider metal fandom. In many ways, that’s because all of the above works in reverse, with black metal … Continue reading In Mordor Where the Shadows Lie – Black Metal and Tolkien
