Classic Sword And Sorcery Art

John Farson -The Good Man

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower - The Battle Of Jehrico Hill

John Farson -The Good Man

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower - The Battle Of Jehrico Hill

Now, unlike Michael Newton’s book of hope, I appreciate the clarity of this book’s title: Encyclopedia of Things that Never Where (1985). Stating that definitively really gets all that belief malarkey out of the way and lets us appreciate these things on their own imaginary terms (as Georgess McHargue encouraged us to do on Monday).

This book is more like a collection of several small topical encyclopedias, each discrete from the others and in their own alphabetical order. Nor do they necessarily make a perfect or intuitive sense all the way through. Things of the Cosmos is mostly gods of major mythologies, but also King Arthur and his knights. Things of the Ground and Underground collects faeries and tree spirits, but also the manticore, Minotaur and Sphinx. Things of Wonderland seems to imply things from literature, but really it collects all manner of fantastical places, from fiction, but also from legend. Things of Magic, Science and Invention could just as well have been called Things and left it at that; it collects notable items, from Thor’s hammer to Jekyll’s potion to the many unusual uses for nails. Things of Water, Sky and Air covers all the creatures not detailed in Earth chapter — Grendel is here, griffins, too, and all the sea serpents. Finally, Things of the Night details the undead and other creatures who hide from the sun, whether they go bump or not.

"Goblin Grenade"

Fallen Empires 1994 | Illus. Ron Spencer

"Artist Gerald Brom offers us a look at a Dark Sun world creature." (Polyhedron 63, TSR/RPGA, September, 1991) The first AD&D Dark Sun boxed set and the first novel, Troy Denning's The Verdant Passage, were published the following month, October, 1991, and further supplements, adventures, and books appeared in 1992 and later. In this issue of Polyhedron, designer Timothy B Brown gave an early preview of the setting:

Dusk Imp (Tenth Edition) - Pete Venters