What if the monster should be left alone because killing it would bring more shame upon the hero than glory?

Holiday shipping notice ❄️ Don't forget to order any books from our online shop today if you want them in time to wrap for the holidays! Our newest titles would make a great gift this year... strangeattractor.greedbag.com X

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Today’s colour-coordinated catches: Appendix N by @pbebergal.bsky.social An anthology of weird tales drawing on the original inspirational reading for D&D The Electrum Archive Issues 1 & 2 by @emielboven.itch.io and @avaislam.bsky.social Exceptional Science-fantasy zines with maps! #dnd #ttrpgs

The Decadent Bestiary edited by Sam Kunkel and Jessica Gossling is available for pre-order on our website! From the Golden Fly to the Wounded Lion, over 40 tales of decadence and mystery await in this sumptuously illustrated collection of fin-de siècle animal stories and poems

Friends, please join me March 10 at 7pm EST for my online talk "Demons and Dybbuks: Magic and the Occult in the Jewish World," hosted by Morbid Anatomy!

If you haven't noticed, I don't tend to do things the normal way. The ever-obscure Dungeon Divinations is back...for now. Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies formatted into a 4x6, 84-page, foiled pocketbook. With lovely rose gold on black. www.maxmoongames.com/product/dung...

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Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Just wanted to thank all the amazing folks here that were part of making Appendix N: Weird Tales From the Roots of D&D a book I am incredibly proud of: @aptshadow.bsky.social @strangeattractor.bsky.social @markopilkington.bsky.social @annvandermeer.bsky.social!

@delver.bsky.social Hey you're the random pick for a copy of Appendix in hardcover. Message me your details!

Any synth DIY folks on blsky? #modular #eurorack

Come see Teleplasmiste (myself & Michael J York) and the mighty Hawthonn, in a rare London live double bill, celebrating our new album 'Of Nature & Electricity', out now via @state51.bsky.social Tickets are free but you need to book via the link below. dice.fm/partner/the-...

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Friends, tickets are now available for my online talk with Morbid Anatomy on Jewish magic and superstition, March 10 at 7pm. Hope to see you there.

Nilsson's The Point is still magic.

For the nerds and nostalgians, I've assembled a gallery of all the Arthur Magazine covers, with links to PDFs for 18 out of the 35 issues. (PDFs for the remaining issues should be available in Spring, 2025.) Happy reading, and enjoy all the vintage ads! arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...

The 2024 edition of my Games to Gift segment ran on Milwaukee Public Radio yesterday. (Fifteenth year, somehow.) Games covered include Adventure Party, Forgery, Life in Reterra, Wyrmspan, Hard Rock: 1977, Devil's Dandy Dogs, and more. The archive page includes my full PDF write-up.

A look back at SAP in 2024, our 20th year of continuous publishing. Thanks to our authors, editors, designers, printers and distributors - and of course to all of our readers the world over. We'll see you early in 2025 with Timothy D'Arch Smith - The Stammering Librarian. Jamie and Mark / SAP

Here's your holiday reminder that Friends, Appendix N: Weird Tales From The Roots Of D&D, revised and expanded edition from @strangeattractor.bsky.social, is out now and would make a great gift for anyone into fantasy fiction or D&D. Cover by Arik Roper and distributed by @mitpress.bsky.social.

If I can say so myself, Moon's Milk, our new book of CD-R sized action paintings by John Balance has turned out beautifully. Don't sleep on it if you'd like a copy, as numbers are limited. Only available from our @state51.bsky.social Greedbag site: strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/ygguqd/

🎲 ✨ Looking for the perfect gift for the TTRPG-er in your life? Dungeon Books has must-have treasures for every adventurer. ⭐ The Book of Gaub ⭐ Appendix N: Revised and Expanded Edition ⭐ Thousand Year Old Vampire ⭐ HOME ⭐ The Monster Overhaul ⭐ Monster Cards DnD 5e Now available at Dungeon Books!

The best part of writing a book is playing chess on your phone.

Friends, there are still copies of the limited edition hardcover of Appendix N direct from @strangeattractor.bsky.social with a new cover by Arik Roper. Would make a great gift for gamers, fantasy readers, and book collectors.

Enchanted music from the other side of the veil: "Of Nature & Electricity" by Teleplasmiste-- @markopilkington.bsky.social and michael_j_york-- is one of the best releases of the year. Available from @state51.bsky.social

Pre-order 'Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology' eds @philh.bsky.social and @rodneyorpheus.bsky.social  A fascinating glimpse into the British occult and pagan countercultures of the 1980s and early ’90s. Available in hardback and paperback from: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/delin...

Happy publication day to the expanded edition of Peter Bebergal's 'Appendix N', featuring 3 new stories and a foreword by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Available now from good bookstores on many worlds. A limited edition hardback is also still available from us at SAP: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/appen...

Friends, today is the official release of Appendix N: Weird Tales From The Roots Of D&D in a revised and expanded edition, available wherever you buy books! Would make a great gift for anyone into fantasy fiction or D&D. And thanks to @strangeattractor.bsky.social it's a beautiful object as well.

My most recent search in Proquest: "gargoyles AND penis."

I dislike being called out in this fashion.

Appendix N: Weird Tales from the Roots of D&D, the revised and expanded edition, will be on sale in the US on Nov. 26th! Preorder now from you favorite bookstore/site. And you can still get the limited edition hardcover direct from @strangeattractor.bsky.social.

Working on a book about 60s/70s monster movie culture, so I'm spending lots of time watching old movies, reading Warren 'zines and other comics, flipping through movie books. I first thought the enjoyment of this is just an exercise in nostalgia, but realized that no, at 57 I still love this stuff.

Big thanks to Carl Griffin at @electronicsound.bsky.social for this fab review of our new Teleplasmiste album 'Of Nature & Electricity'. You can listen to it and buy it on delicious vinyl over here: state51.greedbag.com/buy/of-natur... And over at all the usual digital outlets.

Didn’t realise @strangeattractor.bsky.social had released a new edition of Peter Berbergal’s Appendix N anthology but they have, cool, & he spoke to @boingboing.bsky.social about it: boingboing.net/2024/09/16/p... & here’s something related Peter wrote for us: www.wyrdscience.online/post/words-a...

Trying to get back to work on writing, creating, building. All this still matters, right?

For all the new — or returning? — followers: I do a newsletter called LANDLINE. No paywall, but made possible by support from some readers. Check it out, sign up, do the do... jaybabcock.substack.com

D&D turned 50. And @pbebergal.bsky.social actually made Gary Gygax' Appendix N into a real book. So I read and reviewed it! bookandfilmglobe.com/fiction/appe...

Glad to be here. Hoping to see some old friends and make some new ones. In the meantime here is a classic Sergio Aragonés strip.