Reading bunches of Golden Age mysteries means occasionally encountering words and phrases which have mutated or fallen out of fashion. One of these is "dope fiend", which is a vastly more interesting term than "drug addict", conjuring all manner of pharmacological daemons - hallucinatory mists, possession in a pill, creatures with syringes for teeth.
Chalk up another idea for an urban fantasy I will never write.
Glitches
Note that the last chapter of the audiobook is currently appearing after the glossary and character list. I've put in a request to fix a...
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I first published The Silence of Medair and Stained Glass Monsters in December of 2010. Since I had a backlog of written books, I've ...
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The only thing bigger than the world's first full virtual reality game is the my stery surrounding its origins. Who is behind Ryzonar...
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