I’m very excited to give you something new today: an interview with a fellow scholar. I hope this will be part of an ongoing series in which I talk to other researchers about topics more or less re…

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"The Ones Who Hound Him in the Dark," a genre-blending weird fiction novelette in homage to the pulp novels of yesteryear. By E.M. White.

This is a short story series starring Irina, a fashionista snake woman; Kessa, a sorceress obsessed with lightning; and Pimi, a warrior-sage exiled fa...

© Flavia de Rubeis “The seventh century is poorly documented in Lombard Italy, in the absence of both documents and detailed narratives, for Paul the Deacon’s Lombard history, written in the 790s, …

Inspired by my recent article on South American wild dogs , I went to the trouble of digging out a very brief TetZoo ver 2 article I published in 2007 on the remarkable and beautiful 'fox on stilts...

Welcome back to my monthly installment of new releases in medieval studies. Medieval is being used very expansively here, so expect some books dealing with Late Rome or the Renaissance if they look pa...

I take an in-depth look at the fifth edition of my favourite RPG!

A charter from the monastery of Gellone and dated to 1100 preserves the aftermath of what seems to have been a night-time or dawn attack on two brothers. One, Raymond Berengarii, was struck with a …

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Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement

If you’re a long-time reader of TetZoo, you’ll know that I’ve often examined and discussed the backstories to famous monster photos. And if you follow me on Twitter (I’m @TetZoo ), you’ll know that...

frogs, anurans, anura, myobatrachoids, Myobatrachoidea, limnodynastids, Limnodynastidae, Baw Baw frog, Philoria, conservation, herpetology, frog decline, decline of frogs, Australian frogs, frogs of A...

Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.

Black Death City: miniatures-agnostic narrative skirmish game of dark fantasy and gothic horror.

I crack open WFRP 2nd Edition’s Bumper Book of Chaos.

Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star’s lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper’s final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscri...