Boris Artzybasheff’s Myths of the World – Boris Artzybasheff’s art was rediscovered in the 1980s by a new generation of American cartoonists who were delighted by his illustrations of anthropomorphic machinery and other technological artefacts – Anthropomorphic machines were still in Artzybasheff’s future when he produced twenty wood engravings for Orpheus: Myths of the World in 1930, one of several books by Padraic Colum which retell mythological stories. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/09/21/boris-artzyba...

HaloBattery - Δες εύκολα την μπαταρία των ασύρματων συσκευών σου στα Windows – Το HaloBattery είναι μια δωρεάν και ανοικτού κώδικα εφαρμογή για Windows που σου δείχνει τη στάθμη της μπαταρίας από ασύρματα ποντίκια, πληκτρολόγια, ακουστικά και χειριστήρια απευθείας στη γραμμή εργασιών. Η χρησιμότητά του είναι απλή: αντί να ανοίγεις διαφορετικό πρόγραμμα για κάθε συσκευή, μπορείς να βλέπεις την μπαταρία τους από ένα μικρό εικονίδιο δίπλα στο ρολόι των Windows. –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/10/halobattery-mpataria-asyrmaton-sys...

A. Merritt and Virgil Finlay –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/8/21/a-merritt-and-virgil-finlay

The Peter Max Little Book of Peace, 1970 – The book was issued as part one of a groovy 4-book series: Peace, Love, Thought, and God, all filled with Max's lush images –> https://flashbak.com/peter-max-peace-1970-485295/

This Obscure 1960s Guide to LSD Holds Up – A survey of more than 500 private psychedelic users finds real utility in a 60-year-old pamphlet on safe tripping penned by a pioneer of harm reduction –> https://nautil.us/this-obscure-1960s-guide-to-lsd-holds-up-1285476

A Thirties Grail Thriller: 'Secret Sceptre' by Francis Gerard – Francis Gerard was the author of about twenty-two thrillers in the period 1936-52, many featuring his series detective Sir John Meredith. He also wrote continuations of Edgar Wallace’s ‘Sanders of the River’ stories. He published first with Rich & Cowan, then later with Macdonald. His books are vivid, extravagant, rather headlong, and favour pace over atmosphere. – The work in some ways belongs to the trend in interwar fiction for tumultuous novels deploying aspects of ritual magic, folklore and the uncanny –> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-thirties-grail-thrill...

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905) –> https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-heavenly-death/

Mick Farren overview – Mick Farren (1943 - 2013) was a UK polymath: a member of rock / punk bands, a journalist for music and pop culture magazines, as well as a successful science fiction author. –> https://theporporbooksblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/mick-farren-overv...

Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries, c. 1790 – These illustration plates (lithographs) are from The Book of Wonderful Characters: Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries, Chiefly from the Text of Henry Wilson and printmaker James Caulfield, c. 1790. –> https://flashbak.com/remarkable-and-eccentric-persons-485338/

The Centenary of Adventures of Monsieur De Mailly by David Lindsay – David Lindsay (1876-1945) wrote seven novels, and Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly is always seen as the odd one out. Unlike his other six, it is not especially philosophical, and it is often relegated to the inferior status of potboiler. (Though Lindsay himself said it was not one, as is noted below.) –> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-centenary-of-advent...

Witch! – the practice of witchcraft in Wales. – it explores both anthropological manifestations of folk magic and the then more tabloid foddery form of Gardnerian Wicca, all knives and nudity. –> https://wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/09/witch.html

Fantastical, Elemental Hybrids Persevere in Jon Ching’s Metaphysical Paintings – Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/jon-ching-path-of-least-re...

Niklas Roy Constructs a Functional Pendulum Clock Made Entirely of Trash –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/niklas-roy-glashutte-trash...

Pablo Luna Studio Takes Inspiration from Nature for Its Climate-Responsive Architecture – Inspired by shapes and movement found in nature, Pablo Luna Studio conceives of hospitality spaces, wellness retreats, and homes that sympathize with their surroundings. Rather than creating a barrier between outside and inside, the airy structures welcome foliage and the natural landscape into the overall experience, blurring the boundary between structure and environment. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/pablo-luna-studio-bamboo-c...

Kelly Freas and Star Trek –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/9/9/kelly-freas-and-star-trek

Speaking Scars: Highlights From A French Doctor’s Catalogue of Tattoos (NSFW) – Alexandre Lacassagne was a 19th Century French physician and criminologist who kept a catalogue of hundreds of examples of tattoos –> https://flashbak.com/19th-centuryt-tattoos-485130/

The Centenary of Styrbiorn the Strong, by E. R. Eddison – E. R. Eddison (1882-1945) was young when he was struck by what he called "saga-madness." By 1901, when he was eighteen, he had translated for himself the short and little-known violent "Saga of Vermund Kögur Fjorleif's Son" –> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-centenary-of-styrbi...

Walter Simonson: Six Decades of Artistic Greatness –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/9/6/walter-simonson-six-decad...

The Island – 'The Island' is an adaptation of the 1924 L.P. Hartley short story of the same name made for the TV series 'Classics Dark and Dangerous' –> https://wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-island.html

Homedale - Δωρεάν εργαλείο για να ελέγχεις το Wi-Fi και το σήμα σου – Το Homedale είναι ένα δωρεάν και πολύ ελαφρύ πρόγραμμα που σου επιτρέπει να βλέπεις τα διαθέσιμα Wi-Fi δίκτυα γύρω σου και να ελέγχεις εύκολα την ποιότητα του ασύρματου σήματος. –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/09/homedale-dorean-ergaleio-elegxou-w...

Jack Vance: Adventures Through Both Time and Space – “The less a writer discusses his work—and himself—the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.” -- Jack Vance, 1975 –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/8/28/jack-vance-from-deep-spa...

Portraits of French Criminals Showing Their Tattoos in the 1930s – These pictures of tattooed criminals are from the journal Crocodile, a bi-monthly bulletin of the medical internship of Lyon –> https://flashbak.com/1930s-tattoos-485201/

10 great South Korean sci-fi films –> https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-south-korean-sci-fi-films

Percy Billinghurst’s fables – These are actually La Fontaine’s fables illustrated by a British artist, Percy J. Billinghurst –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/09/28/percy-billing... –> https://archive.org/details/hundredfablesofl00lafo/mode/2up

Free PDF – Wyrd Daze issue 1 –> https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/wyrd-daze-issue-1/

In Chicago, teamLab Expands Our Perceptions Through Boundary-Breaking Installations –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/10/teamlab-smart-museum-chica...

Lou Benesch Conjures the Fantastic World of The Magician –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/lou-benesch-the-magicians-...

Harry Clarke’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/09/14/harry-clarkes...

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard –> https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/

Cosmic amnesia – A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why? –> https://aeon.co/essays/black-holes-ring-like-bells-what-happens-n...