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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison – A review

  I have been reading comics for over 30 years now and hold a great love for the superhero genre. My love of superheroes extends beyond just reading and collecting comics. I am always looking for other mediums to seek out great superhero stories. Mediums  like novels and short stories, Table top Roleplaying games, as well as movies, video games and collectibles. In doing so I have come across…

Coming in March its Superhero Month

  Welcome True Believers and newcomers alike. The Strangers Bookshelf co-creator the Exuberant Enigma Eric here, Inviting you to join us here at The Strangers Bookshelf for Superhero Month coming March first. Where we find our heroes up to their eyeballs in non-stop four coloured fandom. With the major announcements that were made this past month from both DC (Convergence) and Marvel (Secret Wars

The history of Horror RPG’s and Some Great Horror Pen and Paper Role-Playing Games for you to enjoy on Halloween. Part Two

        Hello everyone, and welcome back to my two part special of the history of horror games. In my last post we covered the first part of the history of horror pen and paper roleplaying gameswith three of the earliest horror games which were the most influential games in the 80’s. (Disclaimer) If I missed one of your games, It wasn’t intentional I am going by the limited resources that I…

The history of Horror RPG’s and Some Great Horror Pen and Paper Role-Playing Games for you to enjoy on Halloween. Part One

        This post is for all our pen and paper RPG readers out there who have been waiting for a gaming post from me for some time. I know that Halloween is fast approaching and a lot of you gamers are looking for something new and exciting to spruce up your Halloween. So put away the eggs, toilet paper and shaving cream (you know who you are) and grab your bag of lucky dice, and your Cosplay…

Corpse Candle

       In Folklore, especially in Europe, a Corpse Candle is described as an eerie ball of dancing blue light that seems to hover lightly over the ground. These balls of light were often seen to be travelling on a specific route, mainly from a cemetery to a dying persons house, and then back again. These lights were often spotted inside graveyards before vanishing into the ground.…