Musings of Two Creative Minds

This year has been 'difficult' for me on a number of fronts, some of which I've already shared with you. Still there are others, that are still ongoing and taking up a lot of my time and brain power. I have actually done a number of audio short stories which are perfect for this time of year, I just haven't had the time to really gather and piece together videos to present on YouTube for my "Library of the Obscure" channel. However, if any of you wish to hear any those recordings (complete with sound effects), I'll be happy to post them as a prelude to the podcast itself here on this blog as well as on the Library of the Obscure YouTube channel. Please let me know what you think by leaving your thoughts in the comments section below. In the meantime, here's the link to a story by Lord Dunsany (one of HP Lovecraft's greatest influences), that I shared last year. I hope you enjoy this tale, and I thank you for your understanding... NOTE: I will be a...

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Yes, it's that time of year again, and I hope you all are having a wonderful time with all the spooks and goblins you'll be seeing. Here's a little spooky treat from me to all of you.  As I've mentioned before, I've been working on a new YouTube channel called the Library of the Obscure where I'll be bringing you short stories from various authors, some familiar, others may be brand new to you. In the cases of familiar or even well-known authors, I hope the tales I bring will be brand new to you, which will offer some interesting new insights to some of those authors. In other cases, I hope to introduce you to authors whose names have all but been forgotten and may pique your interest to locate more of their work.  But that will be the work of the 'Curator' of the library to share with you. For now, the Library of the Obscure is still "Under Construction" and will hopefully be opening its doors to you all on January 1st of 2...

It's been a while since I did a book review so I'd say we're do for a new one. Right? Well even if you said no, this post is going to be a book review anyway, especially since the book in question is by an author I've long heard about and was a huge influence on HP Lovecraft (one of my favorite authors of all time). Now some of you may have already figured out who I'm talking about, but for those who haven't caught on, I'm referring to Lord Dunsany (better known by friends and family as Edward Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany). Now as I said before, I've heard of Lord Dunsany from my collection of HP Lovecraft books which often reference his lordship as having a big influence on the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. And I'd been rather interested in trying some of his work for some time. However, I'm one of those readers who likes shall we say... a sampling of an author's work before committing myself to a full novel. So, I read a lot of coll...