Ravenloft Archives

Enemy Within, The

Ravenloft's Take on Jekyll and Hyde Author: Christie Golden In a true case of wrong time / wrong place, Sir Tristan Hiregaard, a nobleman and ruler of Nova Vaasa, does the right thing and yet is blamed for a terrible crime he did not commit. Ravenloft’s forever formidable Vistani clear him of the crime through mystical means, but a rouge in their order, Rozalia, is sure that he remains guilty. Already dabbling in the blackest of magics, Rozalia cooks up a curse even she cannot quite handle, and a new dark lord is born. Soon, a mysterious figure named Malken [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-08T15:34:18-07:00November 8th, 2025|Tags: book review, Christie Golden, dark fantasy, fantasy, horror, Ravenloft, read, reading|

I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire

"I Am the Land." Author: P.N. Elrod In Vampire of the Mists, we gained a brief glimpse into the brutal history of Barovia’s vampire overlord, a history coated in carnage and torn by betrayal and perverted love. Following this history, P.N. Elrod gives the master of the land a chance to speak for himself, to tell the story of his fall from grace and the creation of the dark plane where demonic-demigods rule, distributing abyssal punishments to doomed peoples, and where the mists keep the trapped forever entombed. It all starts with Strahd, an aging warrior who is increasingly dissatisfied with [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-08T15:38:57-07:00January 20th, 2025|Tags: book review, D&D, dark fantasy, fantasy, horror, Ravenloft, read, reading|

Carnival of Fear

Justice for the Damned Author: J. Robert King In Carnival l’Morai you can see your dreams and nightmares. You can see horrors and oddities, performances and putrescences, life and death. No one knows this better than Marie, the beautiful blind juggler. But, despite the roughness of this life, the performers (called freaks) have a close-knit network, a friendliness that helps them through the judgement and the days and nights filled with jeering crowds. But everything changes when Marie goes into her caravan one night only to find the walls and floor coated in blood, the sword swallower dead and impaled on [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-08T15:38:26-07:00December 26th, 2023|Tags: book review, fantasy, horror, Ravenloft, read, reading|