In the latest episode of their treat-motivated podcast, Ken and Robin talk design by subtraction, thief turned detective Eugène-Francois Vidocq, recent fantasy film essentials, and telepathic Soviet dogs.
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By Jason Kraus The late 1960s were a heady time for society. Classified, compartmented military and intelligence programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with previously unutilized chemical compounds to gain advantage over their adversaries and insight into the human mind. In the shadowy corridors of Langley and Lubyanka, the competition to win […]
By Jason Kraus Manipulating an opponent’s mind from within is much more difficult than lashing out with a telekinetic punch or willing the evidence in an interrogator’s hands to burst into flame. It is the dream of every special agent, spy, and clandestine operator to control the way an opponent thinks and feels, experiences reality, […]
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Sep
“I have anticipated my narrative because I do not wish to recur to the horror more than is necessary.” —Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) In 1914, former President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit, along with the Brazilian Colonel Cândido Rondon and the naturalist George Cherrie, descended the unmapped Rio da Dúvida, the […]
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May
May
“In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor. … There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing […]
by Travis Johnson When you’re heading down into the ghoul tunnels or about to mount that final, fateful raid on the vampire lord’s lair, you’re going to want a little more bang for your buck than you can find at your local sporting goods store. Sure, the judicious use of Preparedness and Network can tip […]
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Apr
Apr
“Surrealism is meant for me, because I am a pretty realistic person but don’t like all I see. So I dream that it is changed. Then I change it to the way I want it. It is almost always pretty real. Only mystery and fantasy have been added. All foolishness has been taken out. It […]
Layout & interiors artist Jen McCleary sent me through a sample of the final The Borellus Connection art and it is like a blissful and horrific exploration of the drug-fuelled theme. Here are some small crops of what she’s created so far.
“Man should not know the future. Such knowledge can be fatal.” — attributed to Wolf Messing In 1977, researchers Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks uncovered evidence in the accidentally unshredded MK-ULTRA files that the CIA had hired the stage magician John Mulholland as a consultant. After decades of further research, and the fortuitous discovery […]
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Feb
Feb
“He had lately become a devotee of the William Mortensen school of photography. Mortensen, of course, is the leading exponent of fantasy in photography; his monstrosities and grotesques are widely known.” — Robert Bloch, “The Sorcerer’s Jewel” (1939) William H. Mortensen, the “leading exponent of fantasy in photography,” was born in Park City, Utah in […]