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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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or nonsensically bizarre, but in the sense of otherworldly and uncanny.
e most powerful fantastic literature oen aspires to the condition
of the weird, to the point that fantasist Je Van Der Meer has dubbed
a group of writers “the New Weird,” gesturing back at the original
Weird Fiction that included Lovecra’s Cthulhu mythos and Robert
E. Howard’s Conan (both of which have also exerted a powerful
inuence on game magic). Gaiman, Patricia McKillip, China Miéville,
and the new Weird all owe a debt of inuence to Lovecra’s Dream
Cycle, a series of interconnected stories about protagonist Randolph
Carter’s nocturnal visits to the Dream Lands, where he encounters an
eerie andsurrealworld. e earliest literature of ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870