David Dunwoody
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David Dunwoody
@daviddunwoody.bsky.social
Writer of dark fantasy & horror for the past 21 years. Simon & Schuster, Chaosium, Dark Regions, Crystal Lake & lots of other places.
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These traveling musicians were often used as spies. Now I’m rethinking the smirk in this, Frans Hals' The Lute Player.

“The Lute Player” is also a Russian fairy tale according to the web, in which a queen disguises herself as a male musician in a plot to free her captured king.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM