Angus McBride's Legendary Beasts – History and fantasy are among McBride's most frequent subjects, and here, he combines the two concepts, looking back at beings and monsters from different cultures around the world. –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/angus-mcbrides-legendary-beasts/

OceanofPDF - Ένας πραγματικός «ωκεανός» με δωρεάν βιβλία και περιοδικά –> https://www.dwrean.net/2024/04/oceanofpdf.html

Highlights From Star Trek Fans and Costume Art, 1996 – The book introduces readers to fans of the hit TV show who attend conventions dressed in highly creative costumes –> https://flashbak.com/star-trek-fans-and-costume-art-482460/

Obsolete Compact Discs Are Transformed Into Towering, Shimmering Sculptures – Composed of thousands of stacked compact discs (CDs), the work rises into luminous formations that shimmer, refract, and continuously shift as viewers explore the space. What begins as recognizable material quickly transforms into an optical experience that feels both architectural and atmospheric. –> https://mymodernmet.com/tara-donovan-stratagems-ica-sf/

Immersive Paintings Made Through Meditative State Draw Parallels Between the Body and Cosmos – At first, the works appear as abstract fields of sweeping indigo and mineral pigment. Gradually, they reorganize into something both bodily and astronomical. Gestural arcs suggest the curvature of a spine and the orbital pull of distant celestial bodies. In Xin’s work, the human figure is not depicted directly. Instead, it is implied through movement, rhythm, and trace. –> https://mymodernmet.com/anthea-xin-cosmic-body-paintings/

It's All Real, Isn't It? – A Review of Robert Bloch's "Strange Eons" – despite carving out a niche for himself as a master of suspense, Bloch returned to his roots with the publication of Strange Eons (1978). A slim novel told in three separate but interrelated chapters, Strange Eons dares to discuss the possibility that Lovecraft wrote non-fiction. What if Cthulhu and his brood are real? The novel asks. –> https://theobelisk.substack.com/p/its-all-real-isnt-it

The Mighty Sword & Sorcery Anthologies of Hans Stefan Santesson –> https://www.blackgate.com/2026/04/15/the-mighty-sword-sorcery-ant...

Voyage to Faremido: Gulliver’s Fifth Voyage – Frigyes Karinthy’s Voyage to Faremido: Gulliver’s Fifth Voyage was published in 1916, in Hungarian. Jonathan Swift’s Lemuel Gulliver signs on as a surgeon on a British ship, only to be torpedoed, then picked up by a UFO and transported to Faremido, a planet ruled by intelligent, utterly benevolent machine-folk. In this excerpt, Gulliver accepts an injection of their own brain-matter — quicksilver and minerals — into his head. HiLoBooks is pleased to serialize the story for HILOBROW’s readers. –> https://www.hilobrow.com/2026/04/03/faremido-1/

Masha Foya’s Airy Illustrations Embrace the Universality of Emotions – Where the blue sky breaks through the tree canopy or light reflects onto the surface of a pond, illustrator Masha Foya summons moments of joy and surprise. The Kyiv-based artist’s dreamlike illustrations often portray spaces and individuals in emotional or experiential states, as if the entire environment morphs into a single living being. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/masha-foya-digital-illustr...

Skeletor & Panthor' by James Jean –> https://geekynerfherder.blogspot.com/2026/04/artoftheday-skeletor...

An Ancient Mummy’s Tooth Could Rewrite Script of Scarlet Fever in the New World –> https://nautil.us/an-ancient-mummys-tooth-could-rewrite-script-of...

Conan at Bantam Books – The collections of Conan began in the 1950s with Gnome Press. They came to paperback in the late 1960s with Lancer’s purple-edged books. But the collapse of the company in 1974 left Book #11, Conan of Aquilonia, in limbo. – ACE Books eventually rescued the Conan saga (including Book #11) but new Conan products were not part of the package. Bantam Books managed to grab the license and the next seven books would appear in much smaller print size with some great cover art inspired by the Berkley Books fold-out posters. –> https://gwthomas.org/conan-at-bantam-books/

Gil Kane: A Centennial Tribute – Gil was a titanic force in comics during the 1960s and 1970s, and he kept on creating cool comic art almost until his death in the year 2000. Mr. Kane was known for being a fan of the pulps. He played a special role in my own Sword-and-Sorcery journey. –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/4/6/gil-kane-a-centennial-tribute

Myth, Masks, and LEGO: Ekow Nimako’s Elaborate Afrofuturistic Sculptures – Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/ekow-nimako-lego-afrofutur...

Folklore and Nature Converge in Cat Johnston’s Expressive, Eccentric Puppets –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/cat-johnston-models-puppet...

Spot the Difference – a big, wide-ranging list of various times that artists did very similar artworks for one reason or another. –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/spot-the-difference/

Kusōzu: The Decay of a Corpse in Eight Panels and Monument for the Dead – In The Decay of a Corpse in Eight Panels and Monument for the Dead, Kitō Dōkyō delivers a story of human fragility and timelessness –> https://flashbak.com/kusozu-the-decay-of-a-corpse-in-eight-panels...

Mass Suicide: ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE Death Cult Documentary –> https://cvltnation.com/mass-suicide-order-solar-temple-death-cult...

Kay Nielsen’s Arabian Nights –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/04/13/kay-nielsens-...

The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine – If a human uses an AI chatbot to plan a mass shooting, is the company liable for the ensuing deaths? – Over the course of more than 13,000 messages with the bot obtained by the Florida Phoenix, the student at Florida State University (FSU) called himself an incel, bemoaned that God had abandoned him, repeatedly asked about Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — and, most significantly, used ChatGPT to plan the April 17, 2025 mass shooting at his college campus that killed two and wounded seven. –> https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/florida-mass-shooter...

THE VISUAL TELLING OF STORIES –> https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm

Savepoint.gr – Η εξέλιξη του Retropolis σε ένα σύγχρονο ελληνικό gaming στέκι –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/04/savepointgr-retropolis-gaming.html –> https://savepoint.gr/

Horror Anthologies of the 1930s – The trend of nice fat anthologies that started in the 1920s continues into the 1930s that produces even more books! The effect of Weird Tales and other Pulps must have fed into the book-buying hunger. Some of the editors from the 1920s are still at in the next decade. –> https://gwthomas.org/horror-anthologies-of-the-1930s/

Science Fiction Themes and Clare Winger Harris – One of the darlings of the Gernsback magazines was author, Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968). She may be the first official “fan-girl” of that era, being the first woman to publish Science Fiction under her own name. – Clare did leave one last parting gift in 1931, a letter to Wonder Stories, August 1931 that delineated the Science Fiction genre as Harris saw it. Here is that letter: –> https://gwthomas.org/science-fiction-themes-what-has-changed/

Alan Moore Interview: Magical Consciousness, Disowned Works, and the Long London Quintet – You’ve described magic as “the science and art of causing change in consciousness in accordance with will.” At what point does writing fiction become indistinguishable from casting a spell? –> https://retrofuturista.com/alan-moore-interview-magical-conscious...

A page by Charles Burns from BLAB! no. 2, Summer 1987, Monte Comix Productions. –> https://biblioklept.org/2026/04/19/sunday-comix-49/

007 First Light opening credits make James Bond fans do a double take –> https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/cinematic-007-f...

Vintage RPG – The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs –> https://www.vintagerpg.com/

How Lonely Walks in Nature Can Make You Feel Less Alone – You’re never really by yourself in nature –> https://nautil.us/how-lonely-walks-in-nature-can-make-you-feel-le...

See this artist's super-vibrant interpretations of Alice in Wonderland and Hearthstone – Kseniia Semenova creates stylised fantasy art with character-driven storytelling. –> https://www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-art/see-this-artists-sup...

How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War – Considering the possibility of a truly proletarian art, the great English literary critic William Empson once wrote, “the reason an English audience can enjoy Russian propagandist films is that the propaganda is too remote to be annoying.” Perhaps this is why American artists and bohemians have so often taken to the political iconography of far-flung regimes, in ways both romantic and ironic. One nation’s tedious socialist realism is another’s radical exotica. –> https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-the-cia-secretly-funded-a...

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) – The Fall of the House of Usher: A Film Version of Poe’s Story, directed by Melville Weber and James Sibley Watson, Jr (1928). –> https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fall-of-the-house-of-usher/

KillerTools - Δωρεάν online εργαλεία για developers και IT επαγγελματίες – Αν δουλεύεις με κώδικα, δίκτυα ή συστήματα, σίγουρα έχεις βρεθεί να ψάχνεις online κάποιο εργαλείο για να μετατρέψεις ένα timestamp, να επαληθεύσεις ένα JSON ή να υπολογίσεις ένα subnet. Το KillerTools μαζεύει όλα αυτά σε ένα μέρος, χωρίς εγκατάσταση, χωρίς λογαριασμό και χωρίς χρέωση. –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/04/killertools-online-developers-it.html

How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons –> https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/how-everything-in-a-medieval-...

The rise and fall of Pratolino: Tuscany’s ‘proto-theme park’ – he video essay from the YouTube channel Kings and Things takes viewers through the once-extraordinary grounds, as well as the fascinating history, of the Villa di Pratolino in Tuscany. Built in the late 16th century amid the Medici dynasty’s rule of Florence, this estate was deeply unusual for its time and place. Its creators eschewed refined Renaissance tastes in favour of something more like a ‘proto-theme park’, with world-class engineers populating the grounds with automata, fountains designed to surprise and soak visitors and, perhaps most famously, an 11-metre stone colossus that can still be visited today. –> https://aeon.co/videos/the-rise-and-fall-of-pratolino-tuscanys-pr...

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941 – Jean-Claude Campana is an French painter, who has been painting for more than thirty years, started his career by exhibiting together with Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer... The approach of these Masters encourages the talent of Campana, who already in his youth, builds up a strong character. Strengthened by his expérience in surrealism, symbolism and realism, Jean-Claude Campana has been devoted to Venice since about a fifteen years, in a very personal style. –> https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2011/03/jean-c...