music and tales
The Dwarf marched slowly and painfully through Hell. It was nothing but rocks and crags, climbing and dropping, caverns with awful scenes of torture enacted before him, horrid sounds, cries of pain and weeping, and no sense of time or […]
The day after his capture by supposed pirates, The Dwarf awoke tripping his brains out in Heaven. It was The Garden Of Earthly Delights version, as opposed to the more ambiguous Judaic or Christian versions, but since he had virtually […]
Abbas al-Sabba prided himself on being the descendent of the infamous Hassan I Sabbah, the first Grandmaster of the Assassins cult whose mountain fortress in the Alborz mountains of Persia is the stuff of legend. In fact, Abbas’ obsession with […]
Aboard the ship he was simply known as The Dwarf, mostly because often the simple nickname is the best. He was from New Albion, which he spoke of with a mix of fondness and deep bitterness, and he had purposely […]
Well, it had to come up sooner or later. You cannot discuss fantastical takes on the victorian era without sooner or later bring up the most recognized character in literature of ANY era. However, i wish to concentrate on great contemporary […]
What’s the scariest move you’ve ever seen? A lot of people say The Exorcist. And that’s a pretty scary movie. But for me, hands down, it is the classic Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. You know, the OLD one. The one […]
The Absinthe Drinkers are a LitPop band who have embraced a steampunk aesthetic. What is Litpop? Well, basically, they take poems from famous poets like Byron, Rimbaud, Hardy, Lihn Dinh, Gary Stein, Neil Bowers, etc, and read them to music. Like pop/rock/funk/surf […]
HIs name is Eric Freitas. He makes…. clocks. They look like this: and this: and this: He makes is all by hand, down to the actual gears themselves. An interesting blurb of description: “In 2004 Eric began to study the […]
Today we’re going to listen to an immensely fun album i did rather recently which tells a completely ridiculous story featuring some classic H.P. Lovecraft monsters. It pretty much speaks for itself. The story arch occurs over the first 8 […]
I keep waiting for the day when there’s just nothing to post on. When i run out of Steampunky things. It isn’t like i had any real knowledge of steampunk before i thought of writing the opera and began this blog in […]