These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

There is something deeply human about ritual. From the dawn of time, we’ve been lighting fires, smearing ash, throwing bones, and walking labyrinths, all in the hope that meaning might follow action.

By Andre Tipton I am a 50 year old Gamer/Geek/Otaku who has been gaming and watching anime since the late 1970's. I am a passionate otaku who loves all types of games, anime and comics. I have been ...

I know someone who thinks they have seen a ghost, yes. “Of course, because ghosts are real.” Ever since David Hume wrote those who believed in ghosts were indulging their imagination, the spiritual ...

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark It’s 1912 in Cairo, but not the Cairo we know: This is the alternate fantasy Egypt of Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe, first introduced in his short fiction.

The network drama, The Blacklist, kept fans guessing and maintained a fresh angle despite its procedural format, and this shows in the best episodes.

The concept of a djinn is mysterious and entirely different from ghosts." Setting the film in a Muslim community was a deliberate choice to enrich the narrative.

Shubnum Khan’s magical debut set on the east coast of Africa features a djinn, a house, and a story that reaches down the generations. A djinn, according to various encyclopedias, is a creature ...

Assassin’s Creed is a helix, and it always has been. The developers at Ubisoft have deftly woven the dual strands of history and science fiction together for the better part of 15 years now, and ...