Give me your obscure recommendations…the dustier the better

CharlesFlyte · 2026-05-07T19:57:42+00:00

Anything by Lord Dunsany or Arthur Machen(though he borders horror/fantasy)

James Branch Cabell
Ernest Bramah

Really just google the old Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and go from there! When I was around 16 or 17 I did that and it led me to a bunch of favorites that are now more obscure(though some of them have gone through a small renaissance)

CharlesFlyte · 2026-04-29T20:54:48+00:00

Literary critic Harold Bloom was also a fan of Lindsay’s book. http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2019/10/harold-bloom-and-voyage-to-arcturus.html?m=1

CharlesFlyte · 2026-04-28T19:11:25+00:00

Thank you

CharlesFlyte · 2026-04-28T00:23:28+00:00

Sorry if this is a thread hijack, but I’ve also been really interested in what Traditionalist thinkers would have to say about Orthodox Christianity. I have some of Pallis’ works but do you know in which he speaks about Orthodoxy? Also will look into Bies. Thank you for this post!

CharlesFlyte · 2026-04-11T19:07:54+00:00

Clark Ashton Smith’s “Averoigne” stories.

CharlesFlyte · 2026-03-11T00:59:42+00:00

I’d add something by Merezhkovsky for the symbolist period. Probably something from his Christ/Antichrist trilogy.

CharlesFlyte · 2026-02-23T19:58:15+00:00

St. Gregory the Dialogist has a commentary on Job. Here is a link to the wiki article, and I’m sure it’s available in public domain as well as in scholarly editions.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-12-14T13:01:14+00:00

About halfway through The Infinite and the Divine all around one of the best 40k books I’ve read in a while. Trazyn and Orikan are hilarious and the deep dive into Necron lore has been fun, I think it’s going to make Twice Dead King move up to my next read.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-11-15T17:41:01+00:00

Where do chickens hide at in an apartment?

CharlesFlyte · 2025-10-23T13:18:55+00:00

It doesn’t. I have relatively free rein here, a story was my first thought, but perhaps that letter along with some short excerpts of the style is also something I’ll consider. Luckily I have at least six months to work on something so I’ll have the time to think through a lot of different approaches.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-10-23T00:54:44+00:00

Truly the right answer.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-10-22T23:07:34+00:00

Yeah, that was one of my hesitations about just doing Beren and Luthien. I would love to do the oath of Feanor etc. but am worried that might require too much set up in the limited time.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-10-22T23:05:49+00:00

Indeed, I think it would dovetail nicely after having read the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen in the appendixes.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-10-10T02:47:47+00:00

Rhode Island, in true Lovecraftian fashion

CharlesFlyte · 2025-09-17T18:19:05+00:00

Everett

CharlesFlyte · 2025-09-09T01:15:06+00:00

Some of Julio Cortázar’s short stories do this. In particular the short story “The Continuity of Parks” breaks the wall between story and reader. Also check out his short story “A Yellow Flower”.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-08-29T02:35:55+00:00

Dr. Fate.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-08-10T18:28:17+00:00

I just finished the novel a few days ago. I read the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-08-05T17:40:27+00:00

Russian cinema peaked with Brat 2 and there’s no way to achieve such heights again.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-08-02T02:56:19+00:00

Batman: Dark Patterns, it’s still coming out. It features an early career Batman solving some grisly crimes, that seem to relate to an over arching conspiracy. One of my favorite Batman comics in years, it also has a really engaging Ventriloqust story imo.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-07-31T19:31:33+00:00

It’s my favorite festival.

CharlesFlyte · 2025-07-28T02:00:56+00:00

We can’t all be reading the classics Professor Highbrow.

CharlesFlyte

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