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Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm - A Steampunk Music Video by Lovett

I returned to the archives today to find the device had been tampered with in the middle of night. The disembodied spirit of professor Zlotty could be heard whimpering in the humidor, making strange sucky noises between his sobbing, as though he was trying to remove imaginary bisque from thin air. The Dunwich Horror came huffing home in the early morning, rain-drenched and clutching in his indescribable appendages a crudely-drawn map, apparently leading to non-existent dumpsters at the city’s edge. Ms. Teahymn absorbed in a Chinese puzzle box of some sort… the sort which is not a puzzle box at all, but a fancy block of solid and non-moving wood made to look like a puzzle box. Really, I have no idea what must have gotten into the water around here – especially since really, none of them drink water at all, but somehow the device was tuned to a rather interesting new find when I arrived. I found there on the crystal screen, some amazing footage captured by some rather adventurous cinematographers. I do […]

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Moving pictures with sound

Ghostfire - Vaudevillian Steampunk Video

So, I’ve managed again to slip into the Miskatonic Archive unnoticed. I slipped a box of cream-filled shortcakes into the humidor, in order to distract the spirit of professor Zloty for a few, and the Dunwich horror is out dumpster diving again. I’ve found a few new areas have been added since my last visit, most notably a visual archive to the right and below, which seems to have been updated on a daily basis. I also found that the shop has been dis-assembled, its relics currently available only at the homes of the artisans who created them. A new device stands in the center of the archive; It appears to be some sort of remote-viewing tool, providing not only vivid moving images, more lifelike than any shadow theater, but moving images with sound. I have yet to determine the metaphysical importance of the messages within, but have decided to share some of the more interesting from the bunch here, while I browse the rest of the collection: The Extraordinary Contraptions: Cold Comforts – A […]

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Things Needing Hasty Procurement

Lovecraftian Steampunk Thief raiding treasure chest

Hello, no point in introductions, as this is simply a memo. Nevermind that it is written on the good parchment and contains a wealth of pictures – as that has much to do with a certain “person” devouring an entire carton of memo paper, and the desk which contained it.

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Jewels Vine

Lovecraftian Steampunk Jewelry by Jewels Vine

Toiling away till the wee hours of the night under bright lights and magnifying apparatus in her tiny hilltop studio in the Antipodes, she fashions a range of robots, pocket watch inspired lockets and all manner of hitherto undiscovered creepy crawly, flying and swimming creatures.

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Chickins

Dunwich Horror chasing chickens

When eeting small towns in the middle of night, Dunwich Horror think small towns can taste lots like chikins, theereticly.. not that Dunwich sneeks out to eet small towns or anything… just that small towns has lots of chikins in them, which are tastey. Dunwich, for the records, did also not eet the website – instead there was errors at the webhost which resulted in losing of a year worth of entrees even though professor pokes Dunwich with stick and threatens Dunwich with mustard to apologize for eet yucky web site, which Dunwich did not eet because it tasted bad.. not like chickins. Dunwich Horroren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

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Gate House Gazette #7

A Still from the Metropolis Movie, woman on some kind of mechanical snail

In response to the discovery of lost Metropolis footage, issue #7 is dedicated to this 1927 classic of silent film and the metropolis in general. Of course there is a review of the original Metropolis, by Mr Marcius Rauchfuß, as well as an article about the 2001 anime of the same name, by Mr Sigurjón Njálsson. For the latest about what is going on in that other fine city, the Old Smoke called Londontown, we introduce Brigadier Sir Arthur Weirdy-Beardy of The Steampunk Club, while Mr David Townsend is off to farther realms once again, traveling by the Indian Pacific from Perth to Sydney, Australia. We are also extremely glad to present an exclusive preview of Mr Toby Frost’s upcoming Space Captain Smith novel, Wrath of the Lemming Men! And it almost goes without saying that this issue features all the columns and features that you might have come to expect from us: Ms Hilde Heyvaert writes her “Steampunk Wardrobe” about ethnic steampunk; Mr Craig B. Daniel dedicates his “Liquor Cabinet” to a story about […]

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Amazing!

Steampunk tentacled jewelry

Whilst browsing catalogues, searching for new acquisitions for our fine collection, I came across these fine finds crafted by an artificer I had not heard of previously who is known only as “Naodi” …or as “Sheryl Westleigh” to others I was so amazed and so incredibly impressed, that my first thought was to keep this find a secret, until after the time we could acquire at least a few all of these for ourselves. But, in the spirit of fairness, which stems from a silly rule disallowing staff, even important staff such as myself from the wearing of artifacts from the archives, something to do with Ms. Etta Diem and the Magickal Bloomers of Azathoth. In the spirit of giving, I, instead of hoarding them all for myself, have decided to ever so graciously share these great finds with you: Ancient Bronze Cuttlefish Hair Sticks Cuttlefish Necklace Steampunk Squid Necklace Gilded Steampunk Octopus Necklace Gilded Steampunk Squid Necklace Solar Flare Squid Necklace Solar Flare Cuttlefish Earrings I am going to close this entry in the […]