Anyone who played Dungeons & Dragons during its golden age from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s will know that the most nefarious villain was not, as television’s Stranger Things now has it, Demogorgon, but another demon lord. In a widely played (or at least owned) series of adventures published during this period, players were … Continue reading The Jewish and not-so-Jewish Monsters of Classic Dungeons & Dragons
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Brave New Golems
As pop culture monsters, golems may not have the cachet of zombies or vampires but they haunt us nevertheless, as shown in recent works by China Miéville, Joann Sfar, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman, Emily Barton, Eli Eshed and Uri Fink, and others. Yet the nature and origins of the golem may not be what you expect. … Continue reading Brave New Golems