The blog for news, events, releases and commentary from Castle Perilous Games & Books. located in downtown Carbondale IL. New posts every Monday and Wednesday.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Fight 4 Ever
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Dave Wallace Memorial
Dave Wallace, long time owner of St. Louis' Fantasy Shop, passed away last week after a long illness. There will be a celebration of his life this Saturday at 3 p.m. at the St. Charles Fantasy Shop location. Scott will leave the store about noon and has room for 3 people if anyone wants to ride along.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Birthday
It is Scott's birthday on August 10th so stop in, have a cupcake and take one of each of the items on the table (while quantities last) as your present.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Family Vacation Night
The store will be at Family Vacation Night in Murphysboro tomorrow night from 5;30 to 7:30. Stop by our table and pick up a free comic and Pokemon Prize pack and sign up for our email list.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
St Patrick's Day
On St. Patrick's Day, Castle Perilous Games is a no-pinch zone. However, for every $25 you spend on Magic that day, you may select one green Magic card.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Incredibly Awesome Kid Day
March 15 is Incredibly Awesome Kid Day so bring your incredibly Awesome Kid in and we will give them a free Pokemon Prize Pack. Limit one per kid but you can get more for every $25 you spend on Pokemon
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Items In Drawing
You have half an hour to enter the 31st anniversary drawing. Items 14, 15, 16, 17 and 20 do not have any tickets on them.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Items without a Ticket
The following items in our 31st anniversary drawing do not have a ticket on them as of 7:30 tonight
11,13, 14, 15, 16, 19 and 20
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Open New Year's Day
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Miniature Painting
Come paint miniatures with us from 1 tp 3 today and again on Jan 30. Sydney will be painting and offering help on making your miniatures pop.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Scouting for Food
We are a scouting for food drop off point. Drop off at least 10 non perishable items by this Sunday and get a free set of dice.
Monday, June 29, 2020
July 4th Update
We are going to make this a Free Comic Fourth. Come in during open hours and you can take 2 free comics from the tables in the front room. You may take another comic for each stamp you earn on a Castle Card that day and one more if you have a Preferred Customer Card.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
30th Anniversary Celebration
Friday, February 14, 2020
30th Anniversary
Monday, February 10, 2020
30th anniversary
Saturday, February 8, 2020
30th Anniversary Party
We will have a drawing for over $1000 worth of merchandise at 4:30 p.m. You will get 1 ticket with your bag, and 1 ticket when you donate $10 to the HSSI. You can get additional tickets by:
showing your Preferred customer card
come in wearing a Castle Perilous T-shirt
bring in 10 usable food items for the Good Samaritan House
bring in 10 cans of food or a 15 pound (or larger) bag of cat or dog food (no dyes in the food please)
bring in 10 pounds of Newspaper
earn a stamp on a Castle Card.


