Charles D Shell

Dragonslayer: A Forgotten Fantasy Movie

(Originally posted on February 15, 2017) Disney released Dragonslayer in the year 1981.  The movie came out only a couple of years after the less-than-stellar The Black Hole in 1979.  It is Disney’s next attempt at a more adult-themed movie.  For the most part, it succeeded. Coming out of the dismal decade of the 70s, […]

The Lords of Dus by Lawrence Watt-Evans

(Originally posted on August 9, 2016) The Lords of Dus were the first fantasy novels I ever read by Lawrence Watt-Evans–way, way back in the early 80s.  I’d seen the four novels sitting on the rack at Waldenbooks for a while and finally decided to give the first one, The Lure of the Basilisk, a […]