A little known creature from Chinese mythology, the Tigerpillar combined the ravenous appetite of both creatures.
Tag: Fantasy
Worldbuilding Wednesday 11/1/17: Quaint English Towns
You’re driving along in the English countryside on your way to the next bed-and-breakfast. Villages and towns appear as you turn a bend or crest the hill, then disappear as the road steers you away. Or you’re reading some cozy mystery book set in the British Isles, or a tale of Eldritch horror where innocent …
Meeting with Medusa
Meeting with Medusa An erotic short story for Halloween. Note that it’s comparatively mild, but still NSFW. I knew I shouldn’t have tangled with a Gorgon. It could have Medusa. She’d been reported working in Vegas by the other Hunters I’d been in contact with. Or it might have been Stheno or Euryale, her …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 10/25/17: Bogies
They are the things that make children wake screaming, blind with fear, in the middle of the night. They are the things that slip through the cracks under bedroom windows, the things that turn the knobs of bedroom closets and push them open with agonizing slowness, while the children cower under their blankets and pray …
Black Queen V
Cruelty was actually one of her better qualities. (commission__dark_priestess_by_skyzocat-d935u3r.jpg)
Worldbuilding Wednesday 10/4/17: Legendary Creatures
World mythology is full of fabulous beasts, beings, spirits, and creatures. There are the ones everybody knows, like gryphons, dragons, and unicorns; then there are those that are semi-familiar, like the harpy and thunderbird; and lastly, some that are truly obscure, like the grootslang, the ahkluyat, the senmurv. Here’s a list of randomly generated creatures …
Worldbuilding Wednesday 9/27/17: Arabian Nights
Many people, myself included, have thought that the book of Middle Eastern fantasy tales, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, is a unified work of one author or compiler from the 16th century, ala The Brothers Grimm. But it isn’t. It’s a far older collection of folk tales and poetry from a far wider range …
Black Queen IV
What Galadriel became after she was seduced by the power of the One Ring.
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