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Christian A. Larsen

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  • Why Greyhawk Still Feels Like Home in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

    I started playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons when I was six or seven, sitting on the floor with my older brother and his friends. They… Read more.

  • If Frodo Had Died: Why Merry Would Have Become the Ringbearer

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is built on choices, chance, and courage. Every decision—from who carries the One Ring to who enters the… Read more.

  • Exploring Fantasy and Horror in Watership Down

    There’s a casual misconception about Watership Down: that it’s simply a gentle animal story, perhaps even a children’s book about rabbits in the vein of… Read more.

On the Michigan shore…

Christian A. Larsen

Speculative fiction (J.R.R. Tolkien, Rod Serling, Stephen King) is my jam, but I also dig literary fiction (John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald).

I write better than I publish. Losing Touch and The Blackening of Flesh are both out of print. :(

The Author

Freshly-Imagined Sightlines in Fantasy, Myth, and Legend

—Enjoy! Or not.

Essays

  • Why Greyhawk Still Feels Like Home in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

    Apr 19, 2026
  • If Frodo Had Died: Why Merry Would Have Become the Ringbearer

    Apr 12, 2026
  • Exploring Fantasy and Horror in Watership Down

    Apr 5, 2026

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