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"Blackshield Manor by Marc Edward Star.
If you love that Lovecraftian touch and the madness that follows, then this story is definitely for you.
For me, stories set in a world or setting in which the protagonist is trapped by society and/or circumstances with no way out, are really a bummer. I feel the pressure. I feel the anxiety of there being absolutely no way out." — Dec 28, 2025 05:54PM
"Blackshield Manor by Marc Edward Star.
If you love that Lovecraftian touch and the madness that follows, then this story is definitely for you.
For me, stories set in a world or setting in which the protagonist is trapped by society and/or circumstances with no way out, are really a bummer. I feel the pressure. I feel the anxiety of there being absolutely no way out." — Dec 28, 2025 05:54PM
“What a fabulous kingdom the mind is, and you the emperor of all of it. You can bed the duke's wife and have the duke strangled in your mind. A crippled man can think himself a dancer, and an idiot can fool himself wise. The day a magicker peeks into the thoughts of commoners for some thin-skinned duke or king will be a bad day. Those with callused hands will rise on that day, for a man will only toil in a mine so long as he can dream of sunny fields, and he'll only kneel for a tyrant if he can secretly cut that tyrant's throat in the close theater of his bowed head.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
“By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done!"
"Aye," squeaked Tosho, "for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!”
― Kandar
"Aye," squeaked Tosho, "for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!”
― Kandar
“The thing is to be always ready to change, to adapt, to fit one's self to the facts of life. a fool fights reality and seeks the impossible; a wise man is always alert to move towards the possible.”
― The Lion of Islam
― The Lion of Islam
“monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work.”
― Angry Lead Skies
― Angry Lead Skies
“By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!”
― Kandar
― Kandar
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