There were witches in our villages, monsters in the forest, and dragons at the edges of the maps. For a long time the two were pretty much equal in importance.
We used to know that better than we do now. What is in that human's head is a lot bigger and a lot stranger than the physical reality. But what we see when we look at another human being is still only the tip of a great iceberg. When blind Homer was reciting his poems about the Trojan War, did he think his semi-historical warriors like Achilles and Hector were more “real” than the gods who stand behind every scene in The Iliad? That's a hard question to answer even today, when we call the creations of our mind “imagination,” and wall them off in a separate category from Truth. But the first time someone painted something on a cave wall that nobody else recognized, and explained it by saying, “I saw it in a dream” –well, that was the birth of fantasy.įor a very long time in human history there wasn't much difference between what we experienced and what we imagined. THE FIRST TIME one of our cave-dwelling ancestors came back scratched up and bleeding from a rough day of hunting or gathering and someone asked, “What happened?” literature was born. Love, Crystal, and Stone – Teresa Frohock On the Far Side of the Apocalypse – Peter Rawlik The Height of Our Fathers – Jeff SalyardsĬharlotte and the Demon Who Swam Through the Grass – Mercedes M. Redemption at Knife’s Edge – Tim MarquitzĪ Soul in Hand – Marsheila Rockwell and Jeffrey Mariotte Thanks to Ragnarok Publications for being willing to take the reins. Thank you for believing in the idea and answering the call to make a dream come true.
Published by Ragnarok Publications | Editor-In-Chief: Tim Marquitz | Creative Director: J.M. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Stories and artwork copyright © 2014 their respective creators. Edited by Roger Bellini with assistance by Tim MarquitzĮdits provided on select stories by Rebecca LovattĬover Art by Gabriel Verdon | Interior Art by Tom Brown
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