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Visitation (1976) by Gilbert Williams. • “It’s the perfect storm of a UFO case.” Daniel Lavelle explores the Rendlesham Forest mystery of 1980, Britain’s own answer to the Roswell Incident. The case...
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“NASA’s Hubble revisits Crab Nebula to track 25 years of expansion.“ • Snakes and Ladders is a video adaptation of the one-off Moon and Serpent performance presented by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins at...
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Reversible men and Lipský’s Happy End
A paperback ravaged by the passage of time. Art by Ray Ginghofer. Time of Passage, a piece of short fiction by JG Ballard, received its first publication in Science Fantasy magazine in February, 1964....
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Zeuhl Ẁortz!
Kobaïa / Müh (1970), a single by Magma. 1: Zeuhl definitions Zeuhl is an adjective in Kobaïan, the language written by Christian Vander, drummer and founder of the French band Magma. Pronunciation:...
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Cover art by George Wilson for The Twilight Zone #45, September 1972. Via. • At Public Domain Review: Thea Applebaum Licht on the history of art within art, or cabinets of curiosity and paintings...
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The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet
French artist Jean-Michel Nicollet isn’t really known as a comic artist but one of his strips appeared in the Métal Hurlant Lovecraft special in September, 1978, and was reprinted in the Heavy Metal...
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Lettering Lovecraft
A font design. I’m still working on the new edition of my Lovecraft book, other projects permitting. The restoration gained a substantial boost last week when I finished re-lettering all the old...
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Noonday Heat (1903) by Henry Scott Tuke. • It may still be summer but the Halloween film reissues are already being announced. This year Radiance Films is presenting two features by Belgian director...
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The Skylark (1850) by Samuel Palmer. • The latest book from A Year In The Country is Other Worlds: “Searching for far off lands via witchcraft battles, spectral streets, faded visions of the future...
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The Crystal World by JG Ballard. An illustration by Virgil Finlay for the Summer–August 1966 issue of Things To Come, the Science Fiction Book Club mailer. • At Blissblog, Simon Reynolds looks back on...
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Weird ekphrasis and the Dunwich horrors
The Seal of Yog-Sothoth, or Old Whateley’s conception of the same. A detail from the delightful kitchen autopsy scene which you’ll find below. My thanks to Tentaclii for bringing the following to my...
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Illustration by Adolf Hoffmeister for a Czech edition of The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells. • It’s good to hear that Czech animator Jiri Barta is back at work on his long-gestating feature film...
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The Tower of Babel from Turris Babel (1679) by Athanasius Kircher, showing how wide the Tower would have to be at its base to reach the Moon. • The week’s literary resurrection: Penguin announced...
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A page by Philippe Druillet from Salammbo (1980). • At the BFI: Alex Ramon suggests 10 great British films of 1975 (the Britishness of Barry Lyndon seems a little debatable), while Jonathan Romney...
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Space is one trip: the Hawkwind takes off
1: The album Back in the 1990s, when it became apparent that record companies were committed to never-ending CD reissues of their most popular albums, I suggested to a friend that this development...
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Monaco on Resnais
After watching Providence again I yielded to further temptation and ordered a copy of the book that first introduced me to the film itself and to the Resnais oeuvre as a whole. I’d been itching for...
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The Vision of Endymion (1902) by Edward John Poynter. • The Art and History of Lettering Comics by Todd Klein. Eight of the pages in the forthcoming Moon & Serpent book have been lettered by Todd....
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Moon and Serpent Rising
Top Shelf announced this one on Friday so I can break my silence about the book I’ve been working on since May 2021. The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and Steve Moore was first...
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Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion
It’s the “S” word again. I said at the beginning of this month that I was looking forward to seeing where this interest led, and here we are. My recent reading has included Penelope Rosemont’s...
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Contained Maze (1966) by Michael Ayrton. • At Public Domain Review: Skeletons (1692) by Ikkyu, a Japanese monk, whose book is “a mixture of poetry and prose that comes down to us in printed editions...
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