Secondary Worlds

Tag Area: Fictional Setting
Short Film

The Royal Four-Flusher

Sadly, I haven’t found a copy of this short talkie from Columbia. It may have time travel, but I think it’s unlikely because the hero is transported to a land of kings and queens and fair maidens, which from its description, seems like a fantasyland more than a point in our timeline. —Michael Main
♫ I hate to think what might have been if we had never met . . . ♫ —lyric from “Here We Are” written by Gus Kahn [lyrics] and Harry Warren [music]
A drawing of the Earth laughs as Eddie Buzzell
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

The Band Played On

When Mac hits a high one on his trombone, he first slips into a fantasy world filled with duck people (where he’d rather not be because, well, ducks); then he slips into the far future where he meets Ann, “a lovely little number of about twenty (where he doesn’t mind being because, well, Ann). —Michael Main
Well, I close my eyes and I am shaking so that I hardly notice the vibrations of the horn begin, but when I reach the E in the third measure, I know I am feeling what I felt in Benny’s.
A man holding a trombone confronts a large, two-armed duck.
  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Waxwork I

Waxwork

  • written and directed by Anthony Hickox
  • (at movie theaters, USA, 17 June 1988)
This first of the two Waxwork horror films has secondary worlds, but no time travel. Move along to Waxwork II. —Michael Main
I hear you were having drinks with the butler the other night. Now, you know that sort of thing leads to anarchy.
A butler invites you through a door to see eleven ghoulish heads.
  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

L’Enfant Terrible

When Cthylla is captured by a wizard, she finds it odd that she’s now confined to experiencing time in a linear fashion. —Michael Main
She struggled. This was not like the hold of the Old Ones, or the gentle arms of the nest, these were tiny, strong entanglements, they smelled like the traps from yesterday/tomorrow.
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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Debatable Time Travel