Blood and Thunder Newsletter
Reviews and opinion pieces on pulp fiction, and news regarding my own pulps
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The Hound of Uladh - Chapter 6 (opens the original)
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“And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,With Ate by his side come hot from hell,Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voiceCry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war;That this foul deed shall smell above the earthWith carrion men, groaning for burial.”—SHAKESPEAREA dim, white dawn crept over the plains to fill the deathly quiet of Morvana where men ambled dreamily through the streets choked with beastly corpses. The cottages were largely unmole
The Hound of Uladh - Chapter 5 (opens the original)
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“A blight is on the fruitful plants of the earthA blight is on the cattle of the fields,A blight is on our women that no childrenAre born to them; a god that carries fire,A deadly pestilence is on our town.”—SOPHOCLESThe day was dark and grey, almost cinereal. No r
The Hound of Uladh - Chapter 4 (opens the original)
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“Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful springOf woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddesses, sing!That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reignThe souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain…”HOMERNaria drifted through argent mists of dreams whereon she floated upon the rolling seas and heard the rush of lap
The Hound of Uladh - Chapter 3 (opens the original)
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III“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.”-BYRONThrough the silence of the black, benighted village stole a dozen
The Hound of Uladh - Chapter 2 (opens the original)
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II“At times they vowed sacrifices to idols in their heathenTabernacles, in prayers implored the slayer of souls to affordThem help against the sufferings of the people.”BEOWULFThe sun sank westward, washing the sky in pale blues drifting into a faint, golden horizon. The rising wind tinged with mist that threatened rain. Cullen halted
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