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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Enough Blood for What?
“Is this enough blood?” Sa-Nyarlat, born Senwosret, high priest of the ancient complex of Huut-Nyarlat, gazed down from the height of the valley temple. Once, the plains behind him and across the river’s gorge had been lush and wet with … Continue reading
What Is Steampunk? (Couture)
Check out these amateur street photographs from Edwardian England and France.
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City of the Saints Historical Note #3
Sam Clemens’s brother Henry did in fact die when the steamboat he was working on, the Pennsylvania, exploded. Sam had dreamed of Henry’s death a month earlier, and these experiences left him with an abiding curiosity about psychic phenomena and … Continue reading
What the Consequences Really Are
“I did not intend any of this.” Jacob Bar Azazel looked up at his father. Jacob was as small as any of the children of men, wiry and strong but little. His father, though with sorcerous operations he had reformed … Continue reading
City of the Saints Historical Note #2
Edgar Allan Poe is the father of both detective stories and weird fiction. He also dabbled in cryptography. In the real world, he died in 1849 in Baltimore. He died strangely: delirious, not wearing his own clothes, and muttering about … Continue reading
City of the Saints Historical Note #1
I stole my title from one of my protagonists. In real life in 1860, Captain Richard Burton, East India Company man, linguist, Nile explorer, swordsman, falconer, and erstwhile ersatz hajji (ahem), traveled to Salt Lake City. He wrote a book … Continue reading
