Alice in Sci-Fi Wonderland – Alice in Wonderland: The 1865 Lewis Carroll story isn't just one of the most well-known kids books ever, it was a trippy inspiration for generations of hippies, stoners, and pop culture icons, to say nothing of Jefferson Airplane. Science fiction loves swiping Alice in Wonderland iconography, from naming monsters "Bandersnatches" to telling people stuck in the Matrix that they're about to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And that's when they're not doing an outright reimagining, dark sequel, or parody that uses the "-land" construction – Borderland, Slumberland, Grouchland, Leatherland, Mathmagic Land. –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/alice-in-sci-fi-wonderland/

Misguided Fantasy – And eight years before John W. Campbell would put his stamp on Fantasy with Unknown, there was a series of very Unknown-like Fantasy tales by Betram Atkey. They have been called “Unnatural Nature/The Misguided Nature” series by some. Most would have found a place easily in Campbell’s SF-styled Fantasy magazine. – Bertram Atkey was a prolific UK writer with a long-running series of Mystery novels with a thief character named Smiler Bunn. He wrote some Science Fiction and Horror with an UFO abduction story in 1912, “The Strange Case of Alan Moraine” (The Grand Magazine, September 1912). It even has a romance with a Space Queen. Before the Unnatural Nature set, he had a long running series in Blue Book about Hobart Honey, a Harold Shea type character who travels back in time for humorous effect. Unnatural Nature started in The Red Magazine in 1916 but was reprinted and continued in Blue Book. –> https://gwthomas.org/misguided-fantasy/

Sequins in sitting rooms: why photographer Debby Besford puts skating champions in domestic settings – A new Norfolk exhibition captures young British champions at home in their living rooms. – https://www.creativeboom.com/news/sequins-in-sitting-rooms-why-ph...

A Library of Werewolves 1828-1931 – Still, there are treasures aplenty here from some false werewolves to Penny Dreadfuls to a modern classic written by Ian Fleming of James Bond fame’s older brother that has appeared in many anthologies from 1931 (but not from a Pulp!). –> https://gwthomas.org/a-library-of-werewolves-1828-1931/

Symphonie Fantastique –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/08/17/symphonie-fan... –> https://archive.org/details/SymphonieFantastique/

Alien Metal Jason Galea posters –> https://www.djfood.org/alien-metal-jason-galea-posters/

Zendik Farm Arts Commune – Zendik Farm Arts Commune was a roaming commune / cult determined to live off the land and reject mainstream society, or the Death Culture as they saw it. Starting in the late 60s and ending in 2013 after the death of their original founders Wulf and Arol Zendik. –> https://www.djfood.org/zendik-farm-arts-commune/

It’s Fantastic! It’s Futuristic! It’s Fatalistic! It’s Science Fiction! – There’s a worthwhile documentary struggling to be born in this film which is compromised by its hyperbolic title and a running time of 48 minutes, not nearly enough to contain a history of science fiction, past and present. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/08/31/its-fantastic...

Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century) – By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death. –> https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/metamorphosis-early-mod...

People are calling Netflix's Cinderella rewrite "satanic", but Steps follows a long tradition of reimagining classic fairy tales – Even Disney changed the Cinderella story. – Some people writing on X have even called the movie a "satanic inversion" of Disney's classic because it presents the traditionally evil stepsisters as misunderstood. But are creative reimaginings what fairy tale tradition is all about? –> https://www.creativebloq.com/art/animation/people-are-fuming-over...

Welcome Ithaca, Farewell Greece: On Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus – Can we, then, have a cinematic adaptation of the Odyssey today without it being a fantasy or action movie? It would seem that this is a very difficult undertaking. –> https://bluelabyrinths.com/2026/08/12/welcome-ithaca-farewell-gre...

Anna Ortiz Traverses the Multiple Realities of the Borderlands – In Mesoamerican folklore, the jaguar is a prominent nagual, a being with the power to morph into an animal. Moving from one realm into another allows this hybrid creature to act as a spiritual guide through unknown territories. For Anna Ortiz, the jaguar is also a fitting metaphor for entering into a mythic borderland. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/anna-ortiz-shapeshifter-pa...

Did Marvel Produce Conan Comics That Only Appeared in ITALY? –> https://www.cbr.com/conan-comics-marvel-italy-only/

Artist Directory: Kate Balfe –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/artist-directory-kate-balfe/

The End of Oak Street: gripping dino survival film feels Spielbergian but plays against expectations – When their suburban neighbourhood is transported from 1982 to a prehistoric jungle, Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) must set aside their differences to protect their children from deadly dinosaurs in David Robert Mitchell’s tense and trope-breaking sci-fi romp. – Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, of It Follows (2014) and Under the Silver Lake (2018), and produced by J.J. Abrams, whose reverence for the Spielberg-dominated fantasies of the 1980s has been well in evidence, the film has something of the feel of Spielberg’s collaboration with horror master Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist (1982) –> https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/end-oak-street-gri...

Spiraling Geometries Inspire a Sculptural Observatory Planned for Saudi Arabia’s Alula Desert –> https://mymodernmet.com/heatherwick-studio-alula-manara-observato...