Part of the "Eldorado" storyline from The Wasteland, Sam Smith has descended into the Underworld after his encounter with Death on the edge of Faerie ("Conquistador") and crossed the River Styx after paying Charon with the silver coins he found on the Forgotten Shore ( Read more... )

The Clockwork Empress struck together two enchanted bracelets of gleaming orichalcum. There was a blinding flash of silver-white light that dazzled everyone assembled, and suddenly the Clockwork Empress stood sheathed head to toe in mirror-polished plate armor of shining orichalcum--the near-indestructible red-gold metal of the alchemists--engraved ( Read more... )

"Once upon a time there a Queen of Faerie who so loved the world, she wished that no plant or animal would ever die, and everyone and everything would live forever. Since that was impossible, she vowed to make every living thing as beautiful, as wonderful, and as close to perfection as possible ( Read more... )

Much later in The Wasteland Saga, Sam Smith and his companions must attempt to end the Great War by restoring the sacred connection between the Fisher King and the Land. Unfortunately, his problems are only beginning ( Read more... )

In my forthcoming novel, Black Powder, White Magic, Queen Bloodrose is mentioned in the chapter where Sam Smith and his companions enter the Garden of Forever and encounter the disturbing statues that are all that remain of both Lord Carnelian and Lord Serpentine as well as their goblin armies--statues of carnelian and serpentine marble who are ( Read more... )

Ask a Dwarf to build the Perfect Mousetrap and you will get exactly what you requested. True, it will look like the mutant offspring between a petroleum cracking plant and a steam calliope and cover an entire city block, but when activated it will attract, capture, and exterminate every mouse within a mile radius ( Read more... )

As mentioned previously, Hobgoblins are a sinister mutation of the Common (or Low) Goblin who are best described as a race of faerie psychopaths. Bigger, meaner, and much stronger than their smaller cousins, they are to weapons what Goblins are to technology: for example, a Hobgoblin armed with a sharp knife is far more dangerous than a knight ( Read more... )

Fixing a Hole is a proposal for what will either be a comic book or a television series, and in some ways is a sequel to my current project, The Wasteland, since it takes place in the same universe--but in modern times.

Fixing a Hole is best described as a dystopian fantasy satire based on a simple premise: what if holes opened between Earth and ( Read more... )

"The End of the world was at hand, but it would not be by fire... or by ice. There would be no Armageddon, no Ragnarok, no Gotterdammerung ( Read more... )

Not a part of the Wasteland Saga, but taking place in the same universe years later, in the modern era. This is a fragment from another series entitled Fixing a Hole which is best described as a contemporary dystopian fantasy satire, in which magic returns to Earth--as well as all the creatures of myth and legend. Less than one percent of humanity ( Read more... )