At the conclusion of The Hobbit, the reader is treated to one of Tolkien’s hallmark codas — a short “extra ending” that follows the happily-ever-after. It has been years since […]
We can learn much about both a person and a country by the heroes they revere. One such illustration is the enduring legend of St. George and the dragon and […]
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2016 novel The Buried Giant is a departure from his usual modern or dystopian settings and looks back in time to post-Arthurian Britain. It is classified as a […]
This is an excerpt from Adam Brackin’s new Arthur Evans novel, THE CHAOS SPIRAL, coming soon from Wooton Major Publishing. Helicopter or not, Arthur was using his lecturing voice […]
Dragons are known for many things, but their greed and disregard for human life make them iconic. If I were permitted to use dragon-like qualities as an adjective, I may […]
The Book of Job is one of those works that we tend to skirt around. It is as dark and murky as a dragon’s cave. Job is a good man […]
In the beast fables The Book of the Dun Cow and The Book of Sorrows, Walter Wangerin, Jr. crafted a living bestiary complete with a great and cosmic evil, one […]
In most western cultures, people imagine dragons to be evil, demon-like make-believe beasts, living in dark, dangerous places. They think of large, muscular, flying, fire-breathing creatures with colorful, glittering scales […]
DEFINING DRAGONS: THE MODERN MIND VS. THE MEDIEVAL MIND If you were to look up a dictionary definition of the word dragon, you might find something along the lines of, […]
The night was dark and still: starless, moonless, windless. If not for the groans of the shifting planks and the light smack of oars against sea, there would be no […]
