In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, t...

She has become one of the most recognizable archetypes of modern horror: the creepy, pale girl with long, stringy black hair who is pursuing...

Amongst the popular and enduring ghost stories in Japanese culture are those of Onryo, The vengeful spirit. Predominately these spirits are ...

Before Antonio Banderas put his accent on the character, perhaps the most internationally renowned version of Puss 'n Boots was the anim...

Though regarded as the father of Scientific Romances, and therefore the grandfather of Science Fiction, Jules Verne was not without his ant...

The following samples of merchandise premium cards is an English-language version of the same art used for the set by Hildebrands Chocolate ...

Not even cosmic space can stand between two lovers! Enrico Novelli produced this rather ambitious romance in 1910. Rich in Mélièsian imagery...

Happy Days  was a magazine that ran from 1894 to 1924 and published stories very much in the classic "dime novel" vein. The overwh...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So goes the adage that Westerners like to tell themselves, spoken by ...

William Gibson once described Science Fiction not as true speculation about the future, but rather, the colonization of the future with the...

Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not, there is onl...

Carl Robert Arthur Thiele was a well-known illustrator of postcards within Germany, though his output outside the country is not as well kno...

The following excerpt from a 1918 children's encyclopedia shows the immense distances of celestial objects by how long it would take fo...

From the last quarter of the 19th century through the first quarter of the 20th, Garrett P. Serviss was one of the best-known popularizers ...