Too much Saxon Violence

[hildy89]

GIP with new icon courtesy of readordie.org. Hoping to create my own when I find that copious amount of free time. Meeting tonight, then book tomorrow and groceries eventually... provided the weather holds off tomorrow morning. *glares at Weather.com predictions* Waterlogged OoTP does not make a happy Harry Potter fan make! Ordered history tome from B&N last night for my "light" reading. After wizards and phoenixes, some nice Anglo-Saxon blood vengeance will seem like child's play.

Apparently Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe wrote a walking tour of a mythical neighborhood called the Shambles in Chicago which miraculously survived the Great Fire. The neighborhood sounds like a cross between Arkham and Knockturn Alley... you never know what will show up around that corner. The chapbook, "Walking Tour of the Shambles", spawned a bizarre website. I willingly admit I love reading the clock stories. Be sure to read the guestbook.

The House of Clocks
http://www.preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com/

Whichever of my friends told me about the authors writing about the Matrix, I found the link again:
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/comic_index.html

Comments

[jennetj.livejournal.com]

I think I need to get hold of the Shambles book; it sounds like a delightful twist on reality meeting fantasy. In reading the reviews, I see that they mention the HH Holmes house. Holmes was a real person, who's gotten a lot of press lately because his infamous story is retold in the recent book "Devil in the White City". And the section of Chicago where he had his hotel (and committed his atrocities), while it post-dates the Fire, was south of where the fire started, so did not burn. I love stuff like this!