ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton In March, I attended  Gary Con  in Lake Geneva for the sixth time, and for a con report I'm go...

"The Tower" card from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck The recent miniseries Agatha All Along features the famous Rider-Waite-Smi...

Over the past five years, The   MIT Press has curated an impressive series of Game Studies books, including several of great interest to m...

The front cover of Yggsburgh, with an illustration by Jeffrey Catherine Jones If you haven't heard, Gary Gygax's Yggsburgh sandbox c...

On 1/28/21 there was a online talk, open to the public, titled " D&D and Fantasy Fiction: Giants in the Oerth ", given by John...

If you missed it, the newly resurrected Grognardia blog posted a new interview with Chris Holmes this past Friday. Chris answers ten quest...

Chris Holmes , son of J. Eric Holmes and an RPG illustrator, is the guest on the latest episode of the Appendix N Book Club podcast! I...

Cover art by  Jensine Eckwall A major announcement for Holmes enthusiasts: in 1983 Holmes wrote a review of the then relatively new Call of...

Above is "Advice", a letter from a sixteen-year-old John Eric Holmes to  Famous Fantastic Mysteries , a fantasy and sci-fi pul...

We're going to need a bigger boat, mateys... Yesterday's used bookstore find:  Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus , the sixth an...

Illustration from Worlds of Fantasy #1 (1968) I've just finished reading Conan of Cimmeria (1969), the second volume of the famous Lanc...

Part 53 of a comparison of Holmes' manuscript with the published Basic Set rulebook. Turn to page 4 5 of your 'Blue Book' (page...