General blog posts for thoughts, discussions, reviews, etc.
Cover reveal and synopsis for WULFGARD: THE DEMON’S FANG, a standalone novella! Coming very soon (this December). Ebook will be free for my newsletter subscribers (which is also free) and available in both ebook and paperback across the usual retailers and my website for a very low price. Synopsis follows: Illikon is a city on…
I have many, many big updates underway, and I just want to let everyone know that until those updates are complete, some things on the site will be odd and out of place. Likewise, the newsletter advertises a free novella now – this novella will be releasing VERY SOON, but it isn’t quite done yet….
The final set of my Daily Werewolf Thoughts series! Again, these are not with the best formatting, and I wrote them for my social media accounts that are much less familiar with my work than most of my website visitors probably are. Some very good ones in here, including big discussions of how berserkers are…
I’ve been writing some daily werewolf thoughts in various places, and now, at last, here’s a collection of them so far! The formatting on these isn’t the prettiest, but it’ll do! They’re not big blog posts, just thoughts for fun and stuff. Day 1- I’m obligated to open with the undeniable importance of The Wolf Man…
NEW SERIES! Mythology Facts will explore many elements of world mythologies, but with a particular focus on Greek, Egyptian, and Norse, especially at the start. Easily the winner of the first poll about this new series as held on my Patreon is Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god! In ancient Egypt, like many ancient cultures,…
Wargs (aka worgs, if you play D&D) handily won the poll for August’s folklore fact. What are these giant wolves like, anyway, and are they really all evil in legend? As usual, let’s start with etymology. The word “warg” comes from Old Norse “vargr” (plural “vargar”), meaning – essentially – “destroyer.” Originally, the term is…
This month’s folklore fact is a long-awaited one from over on the Patreon: the cynocephali or “dog-headed men.” Some depictions of cynocephali (the one above is from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493) are mistaken for werewolves fairly frequently; there are several differences of note, including but not limited to the fact that they are otherwise very,…
Ahead of the major release that is Wulfgard: Knightfall in November of this year (still aiming for that!), I have updated the website and rearranged assorted things to prepare for the coming of such an important book. Firstly, you’ll find the main menu has rearranged… here is what it looks like on desktop: Consolidated list…
Today I’ll be covering something else clinical: hypertrichosis. You may have heard of “werewolf syndrome,” a condition of excessive hair growth. It isn’t to be confused with clinical lycanthropy, which is something else entirely. “Werewolf syndrome” is also called hypertrichosis – and it’s occasionally associated with and/or can even be derived from another condition, porphyria,…
Gryphons, griffins, griffons, however you prefer to spell it (I personally use gryphon) – let’s talk their folklore and mythology! (Attic pottery depicting a satyr and a griffin and an Arimaspus from around 375-350 BC, Eretria.) You probably already know the common popular culture concept of a gryphon: a big, vicious beast that attacks people…