Fantasy media Fantastic art Fantasy literature Fantasy authors Fantasy fiction magazines Fantasy art Fantasy films Fantasy operas Genre studies History of fantasy Fantasy subgenres Fantasy themes Quests & Artifacts Fantasy races Fantasy worlds Legendary creatures Fantasy subculture Lovecraftianism Tolk ...

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• Dark fantasy - Dark Fantasy in other media

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Chaos Magick is a relatively new form of ritual and empty-handed magic, utilizing paradigm shifting and inhibitory or excitatory states of consciousness, called "gnosis," not limited to but including meditation, chanting, spinning, dancing, drug use, pain or orgasm. Practitioners hold that they can shape reality using this form of magic. Chaos magic - Pre-History. Austin Osman Spare was initially involved with the Golden Dawn tradition, and its offshoots such as the O.T.O and Aleister Crowley's Argenteum As ...

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• Chaos magic - Pre-History
• Chaos magic - History
• Chaos magic - Magical paradigm shifting
• Chaos magic - The Gnostic state
• Chaos magic - Chaos magicians
• Chaos magic - Symbols and deities
• Chaos magic - In pop culture

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Cerebus the Aardvark (or simply Cerebus) was a monthly independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard for most of the series. Sim began the series in 1977, which ran for 300 issues and 6,000 pages, through March 2004. Now complete, it marks the longest-running English-language comic book series ever by a single writer and art team. As of 2005 it leads its closest challenger (Erik Larsen's The Savage Dragon, still ongoing) by over 170 ...

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• Cerebus the Aardvark - Cerebus collections
• Cerebus the Aardvark - Awards
• Cerebus the Aardvark - Parodies and Appearances

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Blue Öyster Cult is a psychedelic/heavy metal band probably best known for two songs: their 1976 single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from the album Agents of Fortune, and their 1981 single "Burnin' for You" from the album Fire of Unknown Origin. Their song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars," with lyrics penned by Michael Moorcock, appeared in the soundtrack of the movie Heavy Metal. Two other well-known songs are "Godzilla" (1977) from Spectres, and "Astronomy" (1973) from Secret Treaties; the latte ...

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• Blue Öyster Cult - Lineup
• Blue Öyster Cult - Former Members
• Blue Öyster Cult - Bass
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• Blue Öyster Cult - Keyboards
• Blue Öyster Cult - Vocals
• Blue Öyster Cult - Donald Roeser Buck Dharma
• Blue Öyster Cult - Joe Bouchard
• Blue Öyster Cult - Albert Bouchard
• Blue Öyster Cult - Allen Lanier
• Blue Öyster Cult - Jon Rogers
• Blue Öyster Cult - Joey Cerisano
• Blue Öyster Cult - Cowbell
• Blue Öyster Cult - Discography

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Blind Guardian is a power metal (and more recently epic metal) band started in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, Germany. Before calling themselves Blind Guardian, the band released two demos under the name Lucifer's Heritage in 1986 and 1987. From the very beginning, Blind Guardian have been inspired by the fictional worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien and other fantasy authors, like Michael Moorcock, as well as traditional legends and epics. Over the years, a running theme has develop ...

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• Blind Guardian - Band Members
• Blind Guardian - Other Members
• Blind Guardian - Former members
• Blind Guardian - Discography
• Blind Guardian - As Lucifer's Heritage
• Blind Guardian - As Blind Guardian
• Blind Guardian - Singles compilations and live albums
• Blind Guardian - Notes

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Various authors and filmmakers have created dramatic portrayals of Jesus and his life. Many wanted to portray an accurate depiction of what his life is believed to have been like, while others have used the persona of Jesus as a narrative device to make a literary point and develop a story's theme. Because of the devotion of many people to the idea of Jesus, portrayals of him in works of fiction have been, almost without exception, fraught with controversy. Film portrayals of Jesus have, in particular, attracted protests and cr ...

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• Dramatic portrayals of Jesus - Novels
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• Dramatic portrayals of Jesus - Based on Biblical accounts
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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Brian Aldiss - Biography. After World War II, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford. Besides short science fiction for various magazines, he wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, and this attracted the attention of Char ...

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• Brian Aldiss - Poetry
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Behold the Man is a novella by Michael Moorcock, first published in 1966 by New Worlds S.F. It is the story of Karl Glogauer, a man who travels back in a time machine constructed by one Sir James Headington (physicist and wartime inventor) to the year 28 of the common era in search of the historical Jesus. The novel begins with Glogauer arriving in 28 CE Israel, where his time machine is destroyed. We find out later through flashbacks that Glogauer has chronic problems with women, an interest in Jung, and a messiah compl ...

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Gerald Brom (born March 9, 1965 in Albany, Georgia) is a gothic fantasy artist and illustrator. Born the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent much of his early years on the move, living in many countries such as Japan and Germany. Brought up as a military dependent he was known by his last name only, and now signs his name as simply Brom. He graduated from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. At the age of twenty, Brom started working full-time as a commercial illustrator. By twenty-one, he had two national art representative ...

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• Brom - Books
• Brom - Movies as conceptual artist
• Brom - Computer games

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In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human hero or anthropomorphic animal who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (eg. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often very funny even when considere ...

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Thomas Michael Disch came into the world in Des Moines, Iowa, on 2 February 1940. Because of a polio epidemic in 1946, his mother Helen home-schooled him for a year. As a result, he skipped from kindergarten to second grade. Disch's first formal education happened at Catholic schools; this experience shows itself parts of his work, which contain scathing criticisms of the Catholic Church. The family moved in 1953 to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, rejoining both pairs of grandparents. In Minneapolis public schools, Disch discovered his long-te ...

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Thomas M. Disch, Thomas M. Disch - Biography, Thomas M. Disch - Cultural Background, Thomas M. Disch - Selected works, Thomas M. Disch - Novels, Thomas M. Disch - Novellas Partial List, Thomas M. Disch - Story collections, Thomas M. Disch - Poetry collections, Thomas M. Disch - Computer Game, Thomas M. Disch - Nonfiction

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Wells had considered the notion of time travel before, in an earlier (but less well-known) story titled The Chronic Argonauts. He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme; Wells readily agreed, and was paid 100 pounds on its publication by Heinemann in 1895. The story was first published in serial ...

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The Time Machine, The Time Machine - The novel, The Time Machine - Film versions, The Time Machine - Sequels by other authors

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Tom Strong - Issues 1-7. (The following issues are collected in Tom Strong: Book One.) Tom Strong #1 - How Tom Strong Got Started (07 April 1999) w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordon c: Tad Ehrlich Timmy Turbo receives his Strongmen of America membership, which also includes the story of How Tom Strong Got Started. As he reads of Tom Strong's origins and upbringing on Attabar Teru, Tom Strong defeats a 'Blimp Bandit' in the ...

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Tom Strong, Tom Strong - Tom Strong publishing history, Tom Strong - Issues 1-7, Tom Strong - Issues 8-14, Tom Strong - Issues 15-19, Tom Strong - Issues 20-25, Tom Strong - Issues 26-30, Tom Strong - Issues 31-34, Tom Strong - Upcoming issues, Tom Strong - Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, Tom Strong - Collected Editions, Tom Strong - Awards

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The trickster deity breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (eg. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often very funny even when considered sacred or performing important cultural tasks. In many cultures, (as may be seen in Greek, Norse or Slavic folktales, along with Native American/First Nations lore), the trickster and the culture hero are often combined. To i ...

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Trickster, Trickster - Mythology, Trickster - Tricksters, Trickster - Archetype, Trickster - Modern day tricksters

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John Dee - Early life. Dee was born in Tower Ward, London to a Welsh family, whose surname derived from the Welsh du ("black"). His father was a merchant and minor courtier. Dee attended the Chelmsford Chantry School (now King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford), then – from 1543 to 1546 – St. John's College, Cambridge. His great abilities were recognized, and he was made a founding fellow of Trinity College. In the late 1540s and early 1550s, he travelled in Europe, studying at Leuven and Brussels a ...

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John Dee, John Dee - Biography, John Dee - Early life, John Dee - Later life, John Dee - Personal life, John Dee - Final years, John Dee - Achievements, John Dee - Thought, John Dee - Reputation and significance, John Dee - Artefacts, John Dee - Dee in fiction

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Volume one. Volume one opens with Mina Murray recruited by Campion Bond to assemble the League. Bond dispatches Miss Murray to Egypt along with an un-named "sea captain" (who later we discover to be Captain Nemo). Whilst in Cairo, Murray finds Allan Quatermain, who has become an opium addict. The duo are forced to flee to a port after Quatermain defends Miss Murray from a group of Arabs who attempt to rape her, killing two of their number. Down at the docks, Nemo emerges from the Nautilus and blasts the pursuing "mohammedan ...

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Overview, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Inspiration, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Synopsis, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Volume one, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Volume two, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - The New Traveller's Almanac, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Collections, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Source works, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Principal characters, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Secondary characters, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Similar pastiches, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Adaptations, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Awards & Recognition

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In London, Barry Miles and John Hopkins and others produced International Times which, following legal threats was renamed IT. Richard Neville arrived in London from Australia where he had edited Oz (1963 to 1969). He launched a British version (1967 to 1973), which was A4 as opposed to IT's broadsheet format. Oz was also more colourful, with designers like Martin Sharp. Later Friends (later ...

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Underground press, Underground press - The underground press in Australia, Underground press - The underground press in the UK, Underground press - The underground press in the United States and Canada

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The term "steampunk" was originally a tongue in cheek variant of "cyberpunk". The prototypical "steampunk" stories were essentially cyberpunk tales that were set in the past, using steam-era technology rather than the ubiquitous cybernetics of cyberpunk but maintaining those stories' "punkish" attitudes towards authority figures and human nature. Originally, like cyberpunk, steampunk was typically dystopian, often with noir and pulp fiction themes, as it was a variant of cyberpunk. As the genre developed, it came to adopt more of the broadly appealing utopian sensibiliti ...

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Steampunk, Steampunk - Origin, Steampunk - Early steampunk, Steampunk - Types of steampunk, Steampunk - Historical steampunk, Steampunk - Fantasy steampunk, Steampunk - Other forms, Steampunk - Steampunk as a subculture, Steampunk - Bibliography, Steampunk - Modern steampunk, Steampunk - Quasi-Victorian science fiction, Steampunk - Classic SF novels inspirations for steampunk, Steampunk - Comics / graphic novels, Steampunk - Steampunk role-playing game material, Steampunk - In Media, Steampunk - Movies, Steampunk - Notable film precursors, Steampunk - List of steampunk films, Steampunk - Television related to steampunk, Steampunk - Steampunk related games, Steampunk - Music Video references to steampunk

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Alternative history fiction - Antiquity. The earliest example of alternative history appears to be Book IX, sections 17-19, of Livy's History of Rome from Its Foundation. He contemplates the possibility of Alexander the Great expanding his father's empire westward instead of eastward and attacking Rome in the 4th century BC. Alternative history fiction - 19th century. The earliest alternative history published as a complete work, rather than an aside or digression in a l ...

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Alternative history fiction, Alternative history fiction - History of alternate history fiction, Alternative history fiction - Antiquity, Alternative history fiction - 19th century, Alternative history fiction - Early 20th century, Alternative history fiction - Cross-time stories, Alternative history fiction - Introducing the paratime patrol, Alternative history fiction - Development of more sophisticated framings, Alternative history fiction - The Connecticut Yankee wins at last!, Alternative history fiction - Major U.S. writers explore alternate histories, Alternative history fiction - Contemporary alternate history in popular literature including the s-f genre, Alternative history fiction - Alternate history in the contemporary fantasy genre, Alternative history fiction - Elements of Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - The boundaries of alternative history, Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media, Alternative history fiction - Points of divergence, Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history, Alternative history fiction - Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - Published alternative histories, Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories

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Anarchism and the arts - Visual Art. Freddie Baer Carlo Carrà's The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Flavio Constantini Marcel Duchamp Mike Flugennock Clifford Harper Jay Kinney (Anarchy Comics) Arthur Moyse Latuff Laura Norder Donald Rooum (Wildcat Comics, see Freedom newspaper) Mark Rothko Winston Smith Seth Tobocman Camille Pissarro Gee Vaucher John ...

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Anarchism and the arts, Anarchism and the arts - Surrealism, Anarchism and the arts - Music, Anarchism and the arts - Artists and artworks inspired by anarchism, Anarchism and the arts - Visual Art, Anarchism and the arts - Music, Anarchism and the arts - Prose, Anarchism and the arts - Poetry, Anarchism and the arts - Theatre/Drama, Anarchism and the arts - Film/Video

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While Eric Bloom has always been the band's official lead singer, other members of the band have contributed lead vocals throughout its history. Blue Öyster Cult - Donald Roeser Buck Dharma. "Then Came the Last Days of May", "Before the Kiss, a Redcap", "Teen Archer", "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla", "Golden Age of Leather", "I Love the Night", "In Thee", "Mirrors", "The Vigil", "Lonely Teardrops", "Deadline", "Burnin' for You", "Don't Turn Your Back", "Shooting Shark", "Veins", "Dragon Lady", "Danc ...

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Blue Öyster Cult, Blue Öyster Cult - Lineup, Blue Öyster Cult - Former Members, Blue Öyster Cult - Bass, Blue Öyster Cult - Drums, Blue Öyster Cult - Keyboards, Blue Öyster Cult - Guitars, Blue Öyster Cult - Vocals, Blue Öyster Cult - Donald Roeser Buck Dharma, Blue Öyster Cult - Joe Bouchard, Blue Öyster Cult - Albert Bouchard, Blue Öyster Cult - Allen Lanier, Blue Öyster Cult - Jon Rogers, Blue Öyster Cult - Joey Cerisano, Blue Öyster Cult - Cowbell, Blue Öyster Cult - Discography, Blue Öyster Cult - Band Name

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