Tweet Imaginative picture of huge, green dog the size of a cow goes here but I couldn’t find one with a commons license Cu Sith The Cu Sith (pronounced coo shee) is an enormous hound in Celtic mythology which roams the Scottish Highlands. It is the size of a cow, has shaggy, dark green [...]
Archive for August, 2012
Tweet Wikimedia Commons Pangu and the Cosmic Egg In Chinese mythology, Pangu – or Pan Ku – was the first living being and creator of all. The formless chaos of the universe first came together as a cosmic egg. This took 18,000 years. Within it, Yin and Yang became perfectly balanced and Pangu emerged, a [...]
Tweet It’s here! It’s here! Weighted by Ciara Knight, the first book in The Neumarian Chronicles, a YA post-apocalyptic series. It has such a gorgeous cover too! Weighted (Prequel Novelette) The Great War of 2185 is over, but my nightmare has just begun. I am being held captive in the Queen’s ship awaiting interrogation. My [...]
Tweet Wikimedia Commons Cerberus The three-headed dog guards the gate of Hades and has an appetite for live meat—perfect for allowing the spirits of the dead to enter while keeping people out. Hercules’ twelfth labor was to capture Cerberus alive without using any weapons. Cerberus is pronounced with a soft C in English but [...]
Tweet Wikimedia Commons Hesperides For his eleventh task, Hercules was charged with stealing the golden apples from the Hesperides, a trio of nymphs tending Hera’s garden at the end of the western world. The apples gave immortality to any who ate them and had been a wedding gift from Gaia when Hera married Zeus. Hera [...]
Tweet What’s Your Chocolate? Blogfest Do you love chocolate? Does the very word make you drool with anticipation? Then be sure to join us on September 10th for the “What’s Your Chocolate?” Blogfest and tell us all about it! Post about your favorite chocolate – what it means to you, where and when you indulge, [...]
Tweet Wikimedia Commons Geryon Hercules was required to obtain the cattle of Geryon for his tenth labor, according to the account I read. Obtain is a rather bland word for steal, since Geryon wouldn’t have given them to Hercules. Geryon lived on the island of Erytheia, on the far side of the Libyan desert. [...]
Tweet The ebook is on sale right now for .99! Demon in the Basement and other Stories to keep you awake at night horror, dark fantasy collection A time-traveling Chevy, an ancient church of evil, a house possessed by black magic. Stories to fill you with dread, draw you into places you’d rather not go, [...]
