“I found myself subconsciously seeking any excuse to avoid picking up The Mage in the Iron Mask and getting started on this review.”
Tag: Brian Thomsen
“Buckle up; we can’t talk about this one without first dredging up some ugly TSR history.”
“Another year, another anthology! This year’s theme is ‘wizards and magic,’ and it must be quite the well of inspiration indeed, because there are no fewer than seventeen stories this time around plus a prologue and epilogue.”
“I’d heard whispered rumours of this book before, sinister intimations that someone had written a Forgotten Realms novel so bad that it would rend your sanity and leave you a gibbering wreck if you should dare to peer into its pages for too long. Naturally, like the protagonist of any Lovecraft story, I assumed this was overblown nonsense and plunged right in…”