Results tagged “song of ice and fire”

Slate’s Paul Collins has a ghoulish time cooking Banana Pancakes Stonehenge and other horrifying delights from Vincent Price’s cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes. Yes, that Vincent Price. Listen to Vincent describing the preparation of Viennese stuffed eggs.

Read a new Bryan Lee O’Malley and Hope Larson webcomic, Bear Creek Apartments. [via Heidi @ The Beat]

Get ready for the next book in the Ice and Fire series by studying up with the Tower of the Hand , a fan-authored George R.R. Martin Encyclopedia. Along with the expected but wonderfully exhaustive resources like character bios and plot summaries, the site also offers deep investigations into important series questions: My favorite: Who Are Jon Snow’s Parents? [via SciFi Weekly]:

In 1984, Russian animators created this beautiful and unusual animated version of Bradbury’s classic short “There Will Come Soft Rains” [via The Website at the End of the Universe]

I’ve always been both a metalhead and a total fantasy geek—possibly the two most powerful formative influences on my teen years were Metallica and J.R.R. Tolkien. There exists a deep and occult connection between heavy metal and fantasy fiction, one that surfaces both obliquely—Spiked wristbands! Album covers that could double as Wheel of Time book jackets! Fire!—and overtly, as in the legacy of metal songs explicitly inspired by fantastical literary sources.

After the jump, check out a few of my favorite heavy metal songs inspired by fantasy novels. And I know I’ve forgotten a few, so add them in the comments!