The Purple Wyrm Fantasy Resource

Enjoy the classic, complete collection of Cicely Mary Barker’s original Flower Fairies books in this brand-new edition. This collector’s favorite has been redesigned and now features a lavish, eye-catching jacket with silver foil. The interior still includes all of the well-loved illustrations and poems from Barker’s eight original books, as well as a selection of fairy rhymes.

About the Author
Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died in 1973. She (more…)

This is a guest blog post by M. Lori Motley.

While some consider themselves vampires due to their role-playing preferences, love of shocking their parents or friends, or their blood fetish behaviors, the only REAL vampires are the ones immortalized in quality literature and movies.

I’m not talking about sparkly teens who wander about in the daylight.

I’m not talking about angsty rock star types for really want love, even though they won’t admit it.

I’m talking about vampires. REAL vampires. The undead who hunger eternally for hot, fresh blood pumping out of a gaping neck wounds and splashing over their tongue and teeth.

I’m talking about the monsters we love so much.

What are real vampire abilities?

Perhaps the most important real vampire ability is to scare the crap out of you. No mild discomfort when he looks your way. No perturbation at being the object of his oh-so-obvious interest.

Vampires should have the ability to scare… to terrifiy… to haunt your waking hours with the knowledge that, as soon as the sun slips under the horizon, they will rise and hunt you down.

Real vampire abilities – classic to literature and the oldest origins of legend and myth – all point to the ultimate ability to frighten. Vampires can rise from the dead. They can make other people rise from the dead. They can create armies of undead minions if they so desired. Freaky.

Real vampires can shapeshift into things that are naturally scary: bats, wolves and creeping, noisome mist. You can’t stop them. They can get in anywhere: through a high window, in the woods or open fields and even behind locked doors.

Real vampires can create unnatural glamour.  And I’m not talking about glam rock sparkly crap again. With one glance of their piercing, unusually-colored eyes, they can snare your senses and cause near paroxysms of attraction. They can make you want them as easily as Johnny Depp can. Even if they are actually kind of ugly.

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Fantasy enthusiasts and animal documentary aficionados alike are sure to get a kick from this imaginative blend of adventure and nature special that purports to investigate the discovery of a dragon?s corpse in modern-day Romania. Director Justin Hardy skillfully balances the framing story of a British scientific team that attempts to understand the creature?s unique capabilities (flight, fire breathing) with documentary-style “re-creations” (narrated by The Lord of the (more…)