Animal, Vegetable, Lamb – The Zoophyte from Tartary – In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled fetal lambs? Or perhaps a medieval misapprehension of cotton? Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this fabled zoophyte. –> https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/animal-vegetable-lamb/

Kelkor -- Gigachad of Lemuria – Kelkor's history is complicated. He is crucial in two Kull tales, but his role and status in those two is somewhat different, as is the spelling of his name. –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/4/21/kelka-gigachad-of-lemuria

Modern Eden Gallery Presents ‘The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade’ –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/modern-eden-gallery-masquerade/

Οι «δουλέμποροι της τρίτης χιλιετίας» στον Ιταλικό Νότο, έκαψαν ζωντανούς εργάτες γιατί δεν είχαν χρήματα να πληρώσουν τα μεταφορικά τους. – Τρεις άνδρες τους έκλεισαν μέσα στο όχημα και κρατώντας τις πόρτες κλειστές, έριξαν βενζίνη και τους πυρπόλησαν. – Ένας πέμπτος εργάτης, ο οποίος έσπασε το παράθυρο του βαν και κατάφερε να σωθεί – Οι «δουλέμποροι της τρίτης χιλιετίας» τους δίνουν μόνο φαγητό και στέγη –> https://www.doctv.gr/page.aspx?itemID=spg19811

How To Kill: A 6-Part Guide For Urban Assassins 1973-1984 – The six volumes of the How To Kill series are an illustrated narrative to assassination and death by design – “The mechanical act of killing is my chief concern, but the student is warned that it would be wrong to celebrate the death of the subject or to take pleasure in his demise. This is the first indication that your values are slipping and your moral perspective is being distorted. This in turn affects your continued usefulness – kill without joy!” – John Minnery, Kill Without Joy, How To Kill, 1973-1984 –> https://flashbak.com/how-to-kill-without-joy-1973-1984-483193/

Huszti Horvath’s Three Dragons – Book of the Three Dragons is an unusual illustrated volume, being an American edition of a retelling of Welsh myths by a Welsh writer, Kenneth Morris, with illustrations by a Hungarian artist, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath (1891–1973). Morris was, among other things, a Theosophist who was living in California when he wrote Book of the Three Dragons which no doubt explains the American publication. There doesn’t appear to be any Theosophy in this book at least. Dragons are an important symbol for the Welsh, with a red dragon being a prominent emblem on the flag of Wales. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/06/01/huszti-horvat... –> https://archive.org/details/bookofthreedrago0000unse/mode/2up

The Beautifully Brutal World of Michelle Avery Konczyk – Bloody hands lie on heaving chests, its crimson colour soaks into crisp white dresses staining them fleshy shades of pink. Dozens of eyes lurk within the darkness; watching, waiting, judging as one harmonious choir of voyeurism. Severed ears bloom from tender flower stems, catching whispers hidden within the wind. Roses prick their thorns into bare feet as you traverse this dark surrealist realm. As you catch your breath, you watch as naked trees shudder at the sight of this rotting, gory landscape. For as eerie as this place feels, you find it strangely warm and inviting, like crawling back into a motherly womb… –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/michelle-avery-konczyk-art-interview/

Portraits of Taxidermied New Zealand Birds Explore the Space Between Life and Death – Artist Fiona Pardington is giving new life to dead birds. –> https://mymodernmet.com/fiona-pardington-taharaki-skyside/

Down the rabbit hole: ‘Fables and Folklore’ at Nanny Goat Gallery –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/fables-and-folklore-nanny-goat-gallery/

Kane and the Dark Fantasy of Karl Edward Wagner – before he’d ever heard of Howard, and that the character was much more influenced by Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin, published in 1820, which was part of the development of “Gothic” literature. KEW was certainly strongly influenced by the gothic and even referred to the Kane stores as “Acid gothic.” –> https://www.blackgate.com/2026/05/31/kane-and-the-dark-fantasy-of...

Paintings of Paintings – meta paintings – artwork that is itself a depiction of an artwork –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/paintings-of-paintings/

The Monastery of Your Life – Morris Berman and the case for the solitary monastic ideal – In The Twilight of American Culture (2000), Morris Berman laid out a vision of the “monastic option” and the “new monastic individual,” referring to a type of person and a way of life consciously oriented toward preserving and transmitting forms of consciousness and ways of being that can serve as seeds for some future Renaissance after the dysfunctional current order of things has collapsed – He advised strongly that the new monastic way of life must involve keeping these types of activities essentially solitary and sheltered from the destructive attention of the surrounding culture. The more individual the activity, he argued, and the more out of the public eye, the more effective it was likely to be. “A Taoist rule of thumb,” he wrote, “might be that if the larger culture knows about it, then it’s not the real thing.” –> https://www.livingdark.net/p/monastery-of-your-life

Soviet Science After The Fall – Eric Lusito has been looking at former Soviet scientific institutes after the Cold War ended –> https://flashbak.com/soviet-science-483493/

Madcap Erotic Scenes from La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs by Martin van Maële, 1905 – Martin van Maële drew erotica and in the La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs, 1905, we see the best of his work. –> https://flashbak.com/la-grande-danse-macabre-des-vifs-martin-van-...

Time Slips: Suffolk Tales – Timeslip stories from Rougham and Kersey recount eerie experiences where people see houses suddenly appear and step into empty villages from another era. These haunting encounters blur time, creating a chilling sense of stepping into the past, leaving witnesses unsettled by the mysterious and ghostly nature of these visions. –> https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2026/05/10/suffolk-echoes-the-time-...

10 Sword & Sorcery Firsts 1970s –> https://gwthomas.org/10-sword-sorcery-firsts-1970s/

From Apocalypse to Renewal, Amy Casey Paints a Surreal World in Distress – In Amy Casey’s meticulous acrylic paintings, houses and main street buildings whirl through the air amid debris, teeter in huge piles in the sea, or balance precariously on giant clusters of fungi. Our perception is tested: are the houses really tiny or are their surroundings exceedingly big? –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/amy-casey-acrylic-painting...

When Futurism Collapsed – Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner is perhaps the best movie to represent a future that was once held, at least peripherally, possible but has failed to materialize itself. It is also notable that the 80s were filled with “futuristic” movies, often dystopian but still in the search for something “after” the present, the past by now. –> https://bluelabyrinths.com/2026/05/25/when-futurism-collapsed/

The New Weird – Part One –> https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-new-weird-pa... – Part Two –> https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-new-weird-pa... – Part Three –> https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-new-weird-pa... – Part Four –> https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-new-weird-pa...

Mystical Woods – Neil Burnell – Wistman’s Wood is one of the oldest surviving fragments of primeval oak woodland in Britain. Long the subject of folklore and myth, it is a place outside of human time – and places like these, indifferent to human concerns, have always evoked the feeling of being inhabited by something else. Photographer Neil Burnell has been returning to this Devon wood for four years, photographing its fog and gnarled trees with a patience that shows in the work. – This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived. –> https://doorofperception.com/2026/05/neil-burnell-mystical-woods/

Documenting the last generation of teenagers to grow up in an analogue world – Tracking Line is a new series by Paris duo Souffle that pays tribute to the early 2000s, not as an aesthetic but as a vanishing set of gestures and motions. We find out more about the film-and-photo project and why, in 2026, they refused to let AI anywhere near it. –> https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/documenting-the-last-gen...

Reading Fantasy in 1928-29: –> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/05/reading-fantasy-in-1928... – Part Two –> https://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2026/05/reading-fantasy-in-1928...

scificorridorarchive.com – an art project about corridors in science fiction film –> https://scificorridorarchive.com/

Found Clever Street Art (8 Photos) –> https://streetartutopia.com/2026/06/07/found-clever-street-art/

Robo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics – This clown was clearly a big hit, or rather, a kick! –> https://boingboing.net/2026/06/04/robo-party-clown-ignores-asimov...

Από την κασέτα στο streaming - Η εξέλιξη της μουσικής τεχνολογίας – Υπήρχε μια εποχή που για να ακούσεις μουσική έπρεπε να έχεις κασέτα, μολύβι και υπομονή. Το μολύβι ήταν το «εργαλείο» για να γυρίσεις την ταινία πίσω όταν μπλεκόταν. Και όμως, αυτή η μικρή πλαστική κασέτα ήταν κάποτε επανάσταση. –> https://www.dwrean.net/2026/06/apo-tin-kaseta-sto-streaming.html

The 20 best corridors in film – ranked! – Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema –> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/28/the-20-best-corridor...

Ferrari Unveils Its First-Ever Fully Electric Car, the Luce –> https://mymodernmet.com/ferrari-release-luce-ev/

Hong Kong Nights 1974-1989 – Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer's pictures show us a city full of promise alive after dark –> https://flashbak.com/hong-kong-night-1970s-1980s-483471/

The Origins of Hacker Culture, Console Gaming, Debugging, and More in One 1959 Machine: the PDP-1 – The PDP-1, manufactured by Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), can credibly be called the first console gaming machine –> https://flashbak.com/the-pdp-1-483567/

Vanilla Chi on the death of the ego and making books that resist being read – Drawing on folklore, anthropology and Buddhist philosophy, the New York and New Haven-based artist and independent publisher creates publications that ask readers to slow down and breathe. –> https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/vanilla-chi-on-the-death...

Marilyn Monroe at 100: Her Surprising Links to Cool Stuff – Marilyn had unexpected connections to some major figures in the realm of fantasy/exotic adventure. –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/6/1/marilyn-at-100-her-surpri...

Bargain Bin Romance –> https://unquietthings.com/updated-bargain-bin-romance/

Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica – It's likely one of the largest of its kind. –> https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-massive-structure-...

Sword & Sorcery – The Magazine That Never Was –> https://gwthomas.org/sword-sorcery-the-magazine-that-never-was/

A Birthday Tribute to Ken Kelly –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/5/20/a-birthday-tribute-to-ke...

Gwen Howerton on the History of the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company – The history of a lot of disposable media is somewhat under-recognized, from pulp magazines to paperbacks. But the more gimmick-heavy formats have it worse than others. In my experience, the '70s blacklight poster fad is one of the least documented –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/gwen-howerton-on-the-history-of-t...

Heaven & Hellhound – Heaven & Hellhound is a work of dark literary fiction that weaves together the occult, esoteric philosophy and the eternal struggle between light and shadow. – a “tale of metaphysical realism.” You can learn more about the book (and download it for free) at its website. –> https://biblioklept.org/2026/05/19/heaven-hellhound-book-acquired... –> https://www.heavenandhellhound.com/

10 great films about forgers and fakes – With faking and forgery at the heart of Steven Soderbergh’s new art-world drama The Christophers, we went looking for further frauds on film and came up with these 10 genuine originals. –> https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-about-forgers-fakes