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AWESOME-tober-fest 2011: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Day 4 of Vampire book week. Today, we look at the original vampire novel. The one that began the popularization of the vampire myths. Let’s take a look at Bram Stoker’s original Dracula. I really...
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Review of Oz Book 5: The Road to Oz (1909)
One year after Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Baum released the fourth Oz sequel; The Road to Oz: In Which Is Related How Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the...
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Review of Oz Book 9: The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
In 1915, one year after Tik-Tok of Oz Baum released the ninth Oz book, The Scarecrow of Oz. This book features two new characters to Oz, Cap’n Bill and Trot. Both of these characters previously...
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Review of Oz Book 10: Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The tenth book of Oz was released in 1916. It was called Rinkitink in Oz. This book is an interesting entry in the series which makes for interesting reading. The bulk of this book was written 11...
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Review of Oz Book 11: The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Lost Princess of Oz was the 11th Oz story written by L Frank Baum. It was published in 1917. This book starts off with a very interesting premise and dilemma. Dorothy and the other girls (Dot and...
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Review of Oz Book 12: The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The twelfth book in Baum’s Oz series was The Tin Woodman of Oz and it was published in 1918. This was a surprisingly good book that actually has a very relevant title as opposed to a few other books...
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Review of Oz Book 13: The Magic of Oz (1919)
The thirteenth book in Baum’s Oz series was called The Magic of Oz. It was published in 1919, one month after L Frank Baum had died due to complications after having a stroke. This story begins with...
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Review of Oz Book 14: Glinda of Oz (1920)
L Frank Baum’s fourteenth and final Oz book was published the year after his death in 1920. It was called Glinda of Oz. It has been said that Baum only barely finished the manuscript for this book...
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Continuing my journey down the yellow brick road…
On January 31, 2012, I made a resolution to read all of the original L Frank Baum Oz books in 2012. I completed that goal on Dec 20, 2012, just under ten months later. You can visit my Oz Archive to...
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Review of Oz Book 15: The Royal Book of Oz (1921)
L Frank Baum died in May 1919. Baum’s final Oz book, Glinda of Oz, wouldn’t be published until 1 year later in 1920. With Baum now gone, Reilly & Lee, decided to continue the Oz series with a new...
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Making 7 Literary Classics More AWESOME
I’m a reader. I love to read. And I sometimes enjoy reading classic literature. However, some of the old stuff is just flat out boring as balls. I mean, have you actually read Thomas Hardy’s Tess of...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2015: What Was It? A Mystery (1859) by Fitz-James O’brien
And we are off! So, I had planned on beginning AWESOME-tober-fest 2015 on October 1, but I got excited and I’ve decided to start one day early. Today. So, enjoy everyone, my discussion of all things...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2015: The Invisible Man (1897) – HG Wells
Yesterday, I talked about one of the very first uses of invisibility in literary fiction. Today, I’m going to discuss probably the most well known use of invisibility in literary fiction. I decided...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2015: Comic adaptations of HG Wells’ The Invisible Man
I’ve always been a fan of comic book adaptations of classic literature. The most famous versions of this are the Classics Illustrated line of comics from the 50s and 60s. But several other companies...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2016: The Ring of Thoth (1890) – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Here we are! Day 1 of AWESOME-tober-fest! Welcome to my daily celebration of all things spooky. As you can tell, my theme this month is “mummies”! So I’ll be looking at books, comics, movies and TV...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2016: Lot 249 (1892) – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, Lot 249, was originally presented in a collection of medical stories called Round the Red Lamp. Published in 1892, this collection of short stories created a...
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I return to an alternate Oz with Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
From time to time I’ll read stuff that isn’t part of the established “Oz canon”, but is directly inspired by Baum’s Oz works or it takes Oz and re-interprets it in an alternate way. The 1985 movie...
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Dorothy Must Die Stories Volume 1 (2014) by Danielle Paige
A week or two ago I reviewed Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die. It’s the first in a series of books that take place several years after the original Wizard of Oz book by Frank Baum. It reimagines Oz...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2017: Casting the Runes and other Ghost Stories by MR James
Doing research for ghosts I looked up scariest ghost stories to see what popped up that I want to cover. The name M.R. James kept showing up in lists. He’s a very well respected author from the late...
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AWESOME-tober-fest 2017: Cavalcade Comics #15 – The Headless Horseman vs...
Normally I do my new Cavalcade Comics cover reveal in the “Greatest Hits” section of AWESOME-tober-fest but the cover I have for today fits the ghostly theme perfectly. Today, the appropriately themed...
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