Long awaited letter

My dear Friend sends me a letter. We have been exchanging correspondence for 20 years now. So we have a lot of pages written already. With each letter, we are sending something extra. So this time I've received a book by Howard Wandrei. Another one for my list of shame...

Now I'm in desperate need of free time to write him my answer. But before that, I must write another letter to my other dear friend and correspondent. Busy time for me between eleven and midnight for the next couple of weeks. 

Library Update (23)

So I'm alive... Sort of... The last couple of months were very hard in so many instances that I even do not want to write here. But we're still here. 

Since my last update, I've acquired or received a couple of books.No time to read them all for now, but I'm slowly wading thru my list o shame.

The Ancient Track will be a major reading for Lovecraft poetry in the future. 

Robert E. Howard's stories are always entertaining so I hope this book will be fun too.

The great unknown for me, but one of the editors is known to me from other works, we will see.

Polish edition of Trial of Cthulhu. Read it already. Typical Derleth. 

Something interesting for the end. Thick book, but it will be quick reading.

Library Update (22)

My first post in a long tie will be short. The kids are taking care of most of my free time and day got only 24 hours so with them and the work it is hard to find some time for my interests. But it will change in the future, I know that this is only temporary. So for now I'm happy with what I got. 

My little corner of the Earth is hot right now, so with Cryo Chamber's The Nyarlathotep as a soundtrack, I delve into this book. It was a fantastic journey into the mouth of madness as it should be. I found the city, but my mind doesn't take it so well.  So I become mad. Good ending for this little story. Next time I will be more prepared.

As a 14 book this year I'm rereading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. What a book, what a story! I'm reading it for the third? fourth time now? After Burning Chrome from William Gibson. So I'm definitely in Cyberpunk aesthetics right now (with this little exception above). This particular book I bought more than two decades ago. It is one of my personal favorites in the cyberpunk genre. 

Library Update (21)

So, for a long time now I didn't update my library status. As You may predict it only changes when something new is in my greedy tentacles. For a couple of weeks since my last update, I added some times to my list of Shame. But also I've reread one book.

A new addition to my list is Choose Cthulhu 4 based on The Nameless City story by H.P.Lovecraft. Didn't have a chance to play in it. But hopefully, It will change soon. Maybe with Cryo Chamber's Nyarlathotep in the background.

The second item is Rudyard Kipling's book from Polish publisher C&T. I like other, not horror books by him, so hope that this will be another of these little pearls in my collection.

Currently, during reading Downward Spire Lonely Hill, I made a little break to read City of the Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith. This is only one book translated into Polish by this author. Also, this is my second or third time reading it, but I find many new details in those stories. Here it is, as a curiosity, this book from 1991 has a Doc Savage cover by Lang. Why? Don't know. It was a strange time in the publishing industry in my country. Maybe this is the answer.

The Thing Update

After a couple of weeks of nocturnal painting, my wife and I finished minis from The Thing Board game. Then we use our lightbox to make these pictures.  We already play in a couple of games both with 4 people and with 2 gamers and they were great games. Hope this weekend we can play again! So with no furder ado, we want to show  You Our iteration of those iconic heroes. Hope You like them. In no particular order:

Here is an updated Video from Unboxing. We've got some issues with the last one.

Library Update (20)

I'm somewhat late with this post, but it was stranded in draft hell for some time. So fashionably late, here it is!

I've received three interesting specimens for this Easter. Don't know when I will read them, but I will put them on my "List of Shame". Hope that someday I will read them at last.

First are Lovecraft letters. I've got a rule for some time now that I read one of those times a year. Now I'm reading letters to and from Clark Ashton Smith. Maybe this book will be next year's choice?

Shadows over Innsmouth are the second book in the series, starting with Madness of Cthulhu. I never started reading the first one, so this is going to my bookshelf. The same as my next book.

Harry Angel. I have never seen the film, never read the book, but my correspondent said it is worth reading. Maybe someone can tell me if he is right. With this pace of buying books (and publishing them by various publishers) and my reading rate, I must say I'm buying book for my retirement now...

The Thing Board Game

This is Our 150 post on this blog! For a celebration of this moment, we are proud to present Our unboxing of the Polish Edition of The Thing Board Game. We also showing both miniatures expansion - Human and Aliens and also a playing mat for this game with is a cool addition to this experience. With no further ado... Ladies and Gentlemen The Thing Board Game!

Now I must only find another three gamers to play with them...