One of the most iconic werecreatures of modern fantasy is the sewer-dwelling wererat: the apex predator of the city like the werewolf is of the forest. Wererats were inspired by the ratfolk of Lankhmar in Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" stories.
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Thread! 🧵📚 In October, I'll be making a daily #Halloween Countdown post on the theme of #DarkAcademia, with a separate book recommendation and atmospheric, eerie quote each day.
This will be "Part 2," in a way, adding to my Halloween Countdown of 2021. But I wasn't on Mastodon on 2021, so I'm sharing those countdown posts now to get you in the mood! My October posts this year will feature all new recommendations and quotes representing different works than those in this thread. I hope you enjoy this!
"One can only speculate as to why Lovecraft created and made such intensive use of Miskatonic University and the Necronomicon. Certainly the Miskatonic faculty constitutes a kind of Lovecraftian utopia of highly intelligent, aesthetically sensitive, yet tradition-minded scholars." #FritzLeiber, 1949
Eine Art Lovecraftsches Utopia - dieser Gedanke gefällt mir.
Kein Wunder, #Morbidad geht ja ein bisschen in die Richtung. Deshalb auch das Cover.
Warum gibt es die Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Geschichten von Fritz Leiber nicht auf Deutsch als eBook. Ich prangere das an! #pnpde#Lankhmar#fritzleiber#ebookde