Monthly Archives: August 2025

Guillermo del Toro auctions his collection

August 31st, 2025 | Posted in Guillermo del Toro

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of director Guillermo del Toro. I’ve done several posts exploring his work that you can find by searching this site, and I edited a volume on him, The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro. One of the more interesting facets of the man […]

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Fictional Religions in Entertainment

August 31st, 2025 | Posted in religion

I came across this interesting video from the helpful Religion for Breakfast. The title is Why Fictional Religions Feel So Fake.

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Steve Wiggins and Sleepy Hollow as American Myth

August 9th, 2025 | Posted in headless horseman, Steve A. Wiggins, Washington Irving

Steve Wiggins is a frequent guest here at TheoFantastique. I love his work, and his latest book is now exception with Sleepy Hollow as American Myth: Irving’s Story Retold, Adapted and Cemented in Popular Culture (McFarland, 2025). In this book, Wiggins takes us into the labyrinth of the myth of the headless horseman, I figure […]

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Weirdumentary: The Influence of 1970s Paranormal Documentaries

August 9th, 2025 | Posted in paranormal

Those who have spent much time perusing the posts at this blog may recall that the paranormal is a topic of frequent interest. It goes back to my childhood and teen years in the 1970s, inspired in part by the many “documentaries” exploring a variety of phenomena. This interest has stayed with me, including an […]

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