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Christian A. Larsen

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  • 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.

  • Pagan Narnia: Lions, Witches, Wardrobes, and World Myth

    C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is often read through a modern or theological lens, but when we set aside those frameworks,… Read more.

  • The Discord of Melkor: From Pop Rock to Heavy Metal

    In the beginning, there was the Music. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, the universe is sung into existence by the divine being Ilúvatar and his… 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

  • Exploring Fantasy and Horror in Watership Down

    Apr 5, 2026
  • Pagan Narnia: Lions, Witches, Wardrobes, and World Myth

    Mar 29, 2026
  • The Discord of Melkor: From Pop Rock to Heavy Metal

    Mar 22, 2026

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