Monthly Archives: May 2010

1950s Horror and Rational Fears

May 10th, 2010 | Posted in 1950s, horror

One of the highlights of reading academic treatments of the fantastic is reviewing the bibliographies that they include. Several works almost always look intriguing, and many times a handful of titles seem to be included in each bibliography making them “must read” for those looking to probe the fantastic a little deeper. For some time […]

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Wonder and the World of Pure Imagination

May 6th, 2010 | Posted in wonder

This commercial brings together several aspects of appeal that fit in perfectly with TheoFantastique. The overall theme is the idea of wonder, and that of a child, and this is expressed through the crayon drawings of children as various monsters, a robot, and a flying saucer weave their way through a city and adult life. […]

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Paul Meehan: Alien Abductions and Sleep Paralysis

May 2nd, 2010 | Posted in alien abduction, aliens, Old Hag, Paul Meehan, science fiction, sleep paralysis

Paul Meehan is a contributor here at TheoFantastique as regular readers will recall. He is the author of a number of books including Saucer Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow Press, 1998), Cinema of the Psychic Realm (McFarland, 2009), and Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir (McFarland, 2008). He has […]