Allister is back in Derry & Toms to take a look at some Lovecraft. My choice, The Silver Key, and his... The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The latter appears in Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn's Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, and may be the fifth on that hefty list that we've managed to cover … Continue reading The Silver Key & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
AGENT OF CHAOS
Phil is back in Derry & Toms, and we're looking at another IP Spin-off. On this occasion, though, the Moorcock content is significant. Critical, in fact! We're talking about Kami Garcia's The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos. But why is Moorcock so integral to an X-Files prequel novel about 17-year-old Fox Mulder and his small … Continue reading AGENT OF CHAOS
Rolling in the Ruins Part Two – Last Rollers Standing
5 hours ago In June 2026 we hosted a couple of Moorcock-flavoured RPG days a fortnight apart here in Bradford. For more on how that came about, see part one.A lot of our fellow rollers made a weekend of it and stuck around on the Sunday mornings, allowing, for the first time, a more community-based … Continue reading Rolling in the Ruins Part Two – Last Rollers Standing
Rolling in the Ruins – Part One (Build it and they will come?)
After thinking about it for six years, we finally did it. We hosted a couple of days of Moorcock-flavoured gaming here in the heart of Bradford. And it is done. Stick a fork in it. But Phil and I had lots of thoughts about it that we wanted to record and share. Thoughts that would … Continue reading Rolling in the Ruins – Part One (Build it and they will come?)
The Ice Schooner – Part Two
Miles is back for Part Two of The Ice Schooner, in which we find that our hero Konrad Arflane is still a dick, and we beat around several bushes, including the novelisation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Richard Widmark and flamethrowers, and comparative experiences of angiograms… JOIN US!!!! (and listen to the Casual Trek … Continue reading The Ice Schooner – Part Two
Rolling in the Ruins – Day One Report
After six or so years of mulling it over, and then deciding (whilst under the influence of Morphine in ICU at Bradford Royal Infirmary at 3am) to just get on with it... we finally had our first Rolling in the Ruins RPG microcon. 10 games over the space of Saturday the 6th of June with … Continue reading Rolling in the Ruins – Day One Report
Our Experiences in the Third World War
It's Threads Day! So what better excuse to have Dr Malcom Craig back in Derry & Toms to talk about NUCLEAR WAR, and particularly General Sir John Hackett’s The Third World War: August 1985 (1978) and its sequel The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982). As we're both gamers, and Malcolm has an academic … Continue reading Our Experiences in the Third World War
Stormbringer RPG Dot Com (MM&RPGs – X)
SYNCHRONIUS NEWS! We're less than four weeks out from our first Moorcockian gaming weekend, Rolling in the Ruins 2026, and suddenly Elric RPGs are like buses! What great fortune then, that I had this RPG-related chat lined up with Marcus Bone, the guy behind https://stormbringerrpg.com/ and many other things, like: https://www.darkconspiracytherpg.com https://unboundbook.org and https://demonground.org/archives/299-2/ So … Continue reading Stormbringer RPG Dot Com (MM&RPGs – X)
Death Angel’s Shadow – Part Two
Dave returns to Derry & Toms to conclude our coverage of the 1973 Karl Edward Wagner anthology Death Angel's Shadow, featuring his anti-hero Kane. Some great stuff in here, but some rough stuff too, with references to sexual assault, so please beware that we will discuss it in both the original context, as we see … Continue reading Death Angel’s Shadow – Part Two
Teaching Behold the Man w/ Professor Rowland Wymer
In a blasphemous conjunction of the spheres, this year is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novella Behold the Man in New Worlds issue 166 - and a few weeks ago patron Nick Hopkinson sent me the link to an article by Professor Rowland Wymer in Vol 52 no 2 of the Interdisciplinary … Continue reading Teaching Behold the Man w/ Professor Rowland Wymer
Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast 