#Sidney H. Sime

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Sidney H. Sime - Tom o' the roads

illustration from Lord Dunsany's The Highwaymen, 1908.

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"He felt as a morsel..." Illustration by Sidney H. Sime, 1912. The drawing that inspired the story: "The Quest of the Queen's Tears" by Lord Dunsany. Image via MONSTER BRAINS (Aeron Alfrey) Link to the story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7477/7477-h/7477-h.htm#THE_QUEST_OF_THE_QUEENS_TEARS

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Sidney H. Sime - The shadow on the house. Illustration from Pall Mall Magazine, 1906.

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Com en Nuth hauria practicat la seva art amb els gnols, d'El llibre de meravelles (The Book of Wonder), de Lord Dunsany; 1912. Iŀlustració de Sidney H. Sime.

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Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941), 'There Was A Crooked Man', ''Princess Marie-Jose's Children's Book'', 1916 Source

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“There the Gibbelins Lived and Discreditably Fed” by Sidney H Sime, from Lord Dunsany’s story “The Hoard of the Gibbelins” in The Book of Wonder, 1912. This is the tale of a knight who becomes obsessed with seeking the treasures of some man-eating creatures who live at the edge of the world. “Alas that I should say of so perilous a venture, undertaken at dead of night by a valorous man, that its motive was sheer avarice!”

The next story in the this collection is “How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles” in which two thieves go into the gnoles’ forest to steal their emeralds.

Lord Dunsany’s most important influence on D&D probably isn’t his vaguely described fairy tale monsters, but his greedy human characters who travel to the homes of nonhuman creatures to steal from them, often coming to a bad end. D&D originally awarded characters 1 experience point per 1 gold piece looted, as well as for defeating monsters, prompting players to follow the examples of Lord Dunsany’s adventurous thieves and seek ever greater riches in more dangerous lairs.

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Illustrative, C. 1914-1930

Sidney H. Sime

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Sime illustrated many early stories of Lord Dunsany. He became interested in the Revelation of St John in the 1920's.

H.P. Lovecraft references Sidney Sime in his story "Pickman's Model" published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales:

"You know, it takes profound art and profound insight into Nature to turn out stuff like Pickman’s. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. I don’t have to tell you why a Fuseli really brings a shiver while a cheap ghost-story frontispiece merely makes us laugh. There’s something those fellows catch—beyond life—that they’re able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it."

'To the Church in Ephesus' by Sidney Sime, (1867 - 1941)

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Sidney H. Sime (British, 1867–1941) - The Guardians

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Sidney H. Sime

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Time and the Gods

By Lord Dunsany and Sidney H. Sime

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Heavy metal artwork, in the style of jeff easley, hyper - detailed illustrations, david mann,grandiose ruins, luminous color harmonies, powerful symbolism, expansive ::10

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"The Ship of Yoharneth-Lahai" illustration by Sidney H. Sime, from Lord Dunsany’s "Gods of Pegana" 1905. Reminds me of Hubble Space Telescope's new image of star cluster NGC 346, in Ultraviolet.

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Sidney Herbert Sime, “Woods and Dark Animals” (nd), oil on canvas, c. 1914–1930

-Sidney H. Sime Memorial Gallery, via Art UK

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Sidney Herbert Sime, “Landscape Decoration” (nd), oil on canvas (courtesy Sidney H. Sime Memorial Gallery)  :: [Guillaume Gris]

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[Woodchuck Waits – Dec. 1, 2022]

“Deep in his burrow he’s safe from other mouths. It’s his own hunger he has to escape. Winter has wiped bare his vegetarian table. He would starve if he stayed awake. Asleep—a sleep so deep his heart barely beats and his body cools to nearly the temperature of ice—he expends almost no energy. Only at a glacial pace does he burn the fat he added eating up to three pounds of greens and fruit each lush day of summer. In deep sleep his hunger is subdued, his substance shrinks, but is not consumed.”

–Gayle Boss, All Creation Waits: the Advent Mystery of New Beginnings,  p. 45

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Sidney Herbert Sime (1865-1941), ''The Idler'', #6, Jan. 1898 Source