In Battle Ground, on Page 228 (US Hard Cover), Butters makes the following observation: Butters peeked out from behind me and said, "Wow, red carats everywhere." Dresden doesn't get it, asking what vegetables (carrots) have to do with anything. Butters doesn't explain and chalks it up to being a "

I think that this was a short story. I remember reading it as a kid in the 1970s. It was a modern tale with an explorer or sailor of some sort who found himself in a cave near the sea and discovered a bunch of life-like stone sculptures of humans. I think the implication is that he was in Medusa'...

I am looking for a fantasy book from the 80s or 90s, set in medieval times with very graphic battle scenes which include one of the main characters weilding a double sided battle axe that cuts an enemy in half at the top of a castle wall.

So these are the things I remember: The kid finds a strange arcade somewhere and is compelled to go there again He meets a guy named Rick or Ricky in the arcade The boss of the strange arcade shows him to a special virtual reality game The game shows or unlocks your deepest thoughts At the s...

Trying to remember a book I read. I'm fairly certain I got it from my secondary school library, so it would have been published before 2005 (likely 90s or early 2000s). Almost certainly paperback, but I can't remember any details of the cover appearance. I think the main character is a boy, who h...

When I was young I used to love Michael Rosen. Don’t put mustard in the custard and lots of silly ones like that. I also remember that there was a darker poem in one of the poem compilation books set on the underground about a boy who fell between the tracks and couldn’t get back up. The train wa...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his seminal work The Call of Cthulhu described this Elder God as "a gigantic thing 'miles high'. Most derivative works present Cthulhu as "Kaiju-sized". In South Park, for example, It must be 150 meters tall, the size of the largest Godzilla incarnations. Lovecraft ma...

The question kind of sums up what I see as Butcher's attempt to isolate his hero. In the events that transpire during Peace Talks and Battleground, is there any mention of the White Council's elite and how they're reacting to the events that are unfolding in Chicago (which seem pretty dire)? I'...

I'm not sure but I know that he was disowned for having a weak "CREST" but then he gets shipped off to a deserted island. Then finds out that his crest was not trash but just that he has to be in a cave to unleash its potential. Then he mines and finds op ore. Then later a ship full of goblins or...

In the Revenge of the Sith, just before his fight with Obi-wan, Anakin says his famous words: I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new empire. In the German translation of the Revenge of the Sith, Die Rache der Sith, there is a slight change. Ich habe etwas vollbracht. Ich...

I'm looking for a book that was purchased in the late '70s or early '80s. The action takes place in the '60s to '70s. Some day a radio amateur was puzzled by a strange Morse code message he received. This message came from nowhere, or, more precisely, his gonio showed it was coming down from the ...

I am pretty sure I read this short story in an American magazine in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The time is the future, when an extremely realistic 3-D movie system has come into use. It has revolutionized entertainment, but there is a catch: the 3-D cameras project a form of radiation that is cu...

I'll try to explain the question as best as I can, for those who are still confused about what really happened with the Elder Wand: When Draco disarms Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower, the actual Elder Wand doesn't go to Draco (It stays with Dumbledore in his tomb), but the power does go to Drac...

I almost got the sense that despite its ability to assume the shape (or mentally project the illusion) of humans it may not have been sentient although that is hard to understand since it spoke, etc. Was it implied that it, being not truly intelligent, could not control itself? We know that the s...

So this has haunted me for 20+ years. I turned on the television, ca 1995 I guess, and saw this cartoon where a male character, a teen I think, controls this huge white robot whith a joystick. The white robot is fighting a black robot. All the time the boy is yelling and screaming and as I rememb...

Harry Potter has bought his wand at Ollivander's shop for 7 galleons. There're about 10 first year students in each house at Hogwarts each year. Which makes it about 40-50 first year students who need to buy their new wands. There're about 3000 wizards in GB & Ireland according to JKR. It is hard...