Grandpa Pseudoraptor was born in a dream, as so many things are. The young girl who dreamed of him created him out of the images in a book that she found in a dusty box of old stuff that her parents kept in the cellar: a book that told of …
A playwright, much enamoured with tragedies based on true stories, once tried to write a melancholy play about the Cellingo. He worked on it for years, travelling around the world to interview people who had heard the Cellingo play, spending nights furiously scribbling down potential lines and characters. He went …
Everyone thought they’d figured out the village idiot. Silly creature, mutated and ugly, prone to falling off walls. Someone to be pitied, to be mocked, or to be ignored. In a way more akin to an animal – probably part animal, anyway. Always talking to his pet lizard. Where did …
There is a city in the depths of the sea, built measureless aeons ago by forces unknown, that is called by the name of R’lyeh. Many stories are told about it, and many terrible moments of its history remembered, but too few now have a clear understanding of its nature …
Nobody knew much about the Fish With No Name. Some said he was from a faraway place called Illinois, but that’s all anyone had ever heard about his background. He rarely spoke; mostly because he had no vocal cords, communicating instead via mime. Sometimes people called him Goldie, but that …
They say Billy the Squid killed twenty-six men. They say he was a mad and violent squid who liked to kill. They say he was a thief and a robber, no better than the Catus siblings. They say he was dangerous and volatile squid who would shoot you in the …
Of all the bandits and train robbers in the long and bloody history of the railroad, none were so feared as Neo and Báy B. Catus. Entire armies had to be enlisted to protect trains running through the areas they were known to frequent – and those areas were many, …
Many games are played in the Lands of Dream: some are simple, some complex; some are ancient, some are new; some are played with great reverence for traditions as old as civilization, others casually and without much thought at all. But there is one game that is played above all …
In a place unknown to all, where paths vanish under drifting leaves, there stands the Tree of Words. Many have seen it from afar on their travels, and some few from close up, though they never afterwards remember the way. People who have not seen it, or who prefer to …
Once upon a time the Ancient Gods of Outer Darkness came together to look upon the Lands of Dream. Great writhing beasts of chaos they were, monstrous and many-limbed, terrible even to contemplate, and their hearts were filled with loathing. They looked upon the Lands of Dream and hated all …
