Herald of Ruin - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Herald of Ruin [Amazon, Bookshop, DriveThruRPG, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Tim Pratt, cover John Coulthart Tim Pratt’s series of novels within the Arkham Horror fiction line are called “The Sanford Files” after Carl Sanford, the ruling magus of the Order of the Silver Twilight. Herald of Ruin is […]

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"The room reeks of old, dead terror—and a brooding malevolence, as if the instruments of torture are merely biding their time. Just you wait, they’re saying." - The Hermetic Library Blog

The room reeks of old, dead terror—and a brooding malevolence, as if the instruments of torture are merely biding their time. Just you wait, they’re saying. Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “Len Deighton was not an author of spy thrillers but of horror, because all Cold War–era […]

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Red Equinox - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Red Equinox [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Douglas Wynne, book 1 of The SPECTRA Files series Red Equinox is an action novel rooted in Lovecraftian chiliasm. It has substance, pacing, structure, and character complexity comparable to one of Charles Stross’ Laundry novels, but it is both less funny and less scary. […]

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“But do we get to play with safe opto-isolated geometry engines and invocation clusters here? Do we, fuck: we’re stuck with Dr. Volt and his thuggish friend Mr. Amp, and pray we don’t get a stray ground loop while the summoning core is present and active.”

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"But do we get to play with safe opto-isolated geometry engines and invocation clusters here? Do we, fuck: we’re stuck with Dr. Volt and his thuggish friend Mr. Amp, and pray we don’t get a stray ground loop while the summoning core is present and active." - The Hermetic Library Blog

But do we get to play with safe opto-isolated geometry engines and invocation clusters here? Do we, fuck: we’re stuck with Dr. Volt and his thuggish friend Mr. Amp, and pray we don’t get a stray ground loop while the summoning core is present and active. Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local […]

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