Fighting Fantasy Books: Dice, Pencil & A Paperback Book - Before the Weird Wide Web and MMOGs, all kids had was an imagination a couple of dice, a pencil and a role-playing book.
Greenleaf: The Golden Age Of Erotic Novels - Back in the late 50s and into the 1970s, respected sci-fi writers wrote what have become cult classics of erotic pulp fiction under pseudonyms.
How Things Have Changed: Ladybird's Peter & Jane Through The Years - The changes in the illustrations of Peter and Jane books, that reflect the changing society of Britain.
New Hope: Part 1 - 1957 Pismo Beach, a small town boy with dreams of escape from the monotonous ebb and flow of life in small beach town on the California coast.
The Banned Kids Book That Never Existed: Space Oddity - Based on the David Bowie song, a Canadian illustrator created a kids book, but had it banned by the song's copyright owners.
The Fantastically Surreal World Of Roland Topor - French surrealist writer and artist, more well known outside of France for his visual design of the cult animation Fantastic Planet (1973).
Weird Works Of Literature Most Will Never Read - There are works of literature whose infamy lies in insane length, or that they are just indecipherable to most mere mortals.
Who Goes There? Movies You May Not Know Where Based On Pulp Novels (Part 1) - There have been many movie adaptations of novels, but did you know of these weird ones?
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Go Fuck Yourself! The Ultimate Time Travel Paradox In Science Fiction - A look at two sci-fi stories that take a whole weird different twist on the grandfather paradox.
Henry Darger: In The Realms Of The Unreal - The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.
New Hope: Prologue - The serialisation of the novel New Hope. It's 1947, in small town USA, and the worst kind of tragedy is about to shatter the American Dream for one unsuspecting family.
Red Alert! Movies You May Not Know Where Based On Pulp Novels (Part 2) - Another list of obscure novels, that have been made into classic cult movies.
The Dial-A-Poem Poets - A New York City poetry project started in 1968, by poet John Giorno. It used the telephone system, to spread poetry recorded by poets and artists.
Voynich Manuscript: The Most Mysterious Book In The World - A bizarre 13th century manuscript that no-one has ever been able to decipher. Full of weird illustrations and strange text.
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas - A dark take of heroin addiction and redemption, in a short story my Burroughs. Later made into a short film produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
Xyzzy Is The Magic Word: Adventures In Interactive Fiction - The story of the first ever adventure game, "Adventure", that spawned a new genre in gaming, and a new magic word.
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