tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post8065221043488798751..comments2024-03-17T23:41:39.161-06:00Comments on Steampunk Scholar: Victorian/Steampunk MonstersMike Perschonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335943113292616702noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-76554520178276365202011-12-09T13:29:05.673-07:002011-12-09T13:29:05.673-07:00I'm looking forward to seeing Hugo Cabret, and...I'm looking forward to seeing Hugo Cabret, and will certainly post once I have. Thanks for the encouragement to do so!Mike Perschonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09335943113292616702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-38478828529849383112011-12-09T07:26:41.007-07:002011-12-09T07:26:41.007-07:00I hope that you wil review Invention of Hugo Cabre...I hope that you wil review Invention of Hugo Cabret, the film. It is a steampunk film, full of cogs, wheels, even steampunked leg prosthetics, as well as set in a steam train station in paris. I tried to so a small post recommending it on Screw Bronze, but I would welcome your view of this steampunked automoton version of Edward Scissorhands mets the start of film and fixing (Johnny Depp is the Producer, though this is not mentioned, odd that).<br /><br />I have thought more about monsters, and the mechanical man as both savoir and destroyer is common as well - as you refer to at the end of this piece.Elizabeth McClunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03627373214555333537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-20301265393930154152011-11-03T09:49:16.430-06:002011-11-03T09:49:16.430-06:00Excellent additions, mpshiel. Thanks for contribut...Excellent additions, mpshiel. Thanks for contributing to the conversation!Mike Perschonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09335943113292616702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-51370062476697567832011-11-03T06:31:59.606-06:002011-11-03T06:31:59.606-06:00I would posit that the greatest writers of this pe...I would posit that the greatest writers of this period wrote of ghosts, from Carnaki to m.p.Shiel - Winston Churchill wrote ghost stories, Violet Hunt, children's writers, Stephenson and the amazing work by the female writers of the period. Same of course were the supernatural elements of Detective Fiction, from scientists turned to super apes to White, the writer for the Stand whose obsession with Green London, or White London imagined fog as the great monster, whether otherworldly or poison (Not to mention his fiction work: the severed hand). Many small presses reprint illusive works including the great many warnings not to awaken Pan or the other wooded gods.<br /><br />As for me, any zombie outbreak would need be at the Southern Terminus of the Necropolis line, the unsanctified, perhaps those coffins which had been sent second or third class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-7375788203227703632011-10-30T14:52:56.975-06:002011-10-30T14:52:56.975-06:00I wonder if it's any coincidence that the crea...I wonder if it's any coincidence that the creation of such a plethora of now-iconic monster figures during the 19th century coincides with the popularization (and sanitization) of fairy-tales during the same period. With all of the capricious, alien, and outright malevolent creatures of the night from popular folklore being given what ammounts to a Disney make-over, it makes sense that the era would generate new monsters grounded in its contemporary concerns (accounting, perhaps, for the markedly human nature of most of the entities in you list above).D. Emerson Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256908766879454432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1069343736818411279.post-65535478521673985752011-10-29T19:19:11.209-06:002011-10-29T19:19:11.209-06:00AUGH. More books for my shelf! That Mignola book l...AUGH. More books for my shelf! That Mignola book looks GOOD. The Amazing Screw-On Head vid still preys on my mind on occasion (thanks, dude) so Baltimore does look good....Jhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985629384463009968noreply@blogger.com