Spirits

Tag Area: Fictional Collective
Playlet

The Jest of Hahalaba

Against the advice of his alchemist, Sir Arthur calls up the Spirit of Laughter on New Year’s Eve and asks to see the coming year’s issues of the Times. —Michael Main
Sir Arthur Strangways: Only a trifle. I wish to see a file of the Times.
Hahalaba:For what year?
19th-century, hand-drawn map showing Dunsany Castle and its surrounds.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Scrooge

A faithful musical retelling of the original (complete with humbugs and the ambiguity over whether viewing the past and present consists of actual time travel). —Michael Main
Humbug! Insolent young ruffians coming here with their Christmas nonsense!
A cartoon Scrooge highkicks at the front of a top-hat-wearing Christmas crowd.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novel

The Nonsuch Lure

  • by Mary Luke
  • (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, September 1976)
—based on publicity material
Timothy spoke. “Are you there? In 1536?” He avoided using Andrew’s name. If there was to be an answer, any name would be unfamiliar at the moment. “Do you wish to tell me, my friend, what you see?”
A young blonde woman in a Tudor-style, orange dress stands in front of a young man and a palace.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

retold for children

A Christmas Carol

The tale is a somewhat faithful retelling for children, abridge to about a third of the original length, in simple language, and with copious illustrations by Chris Russell. It even retains the metaphysical thought that the future will be bleak for Tiny Tim if things remain unchanged. —Michael Main
If these shadows do not change, Tiny Tim will not see another Christmas.
Dressed in green and holding a torch high, the ghost of Christmas-yet-to-come beseeches a cowering Scrooge in his nightshirt and nightcap.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Animated Feature Film

Monster High, Movie #10

Monster High: Freaky Fusion

The animated gang of teen monsters travel centuries into the past to the first day ever at Monster High, but when they return they have each merged with another in the group creating freaky hybrid monsters all around. I’m not sure, but I’m betting that Mattel used this DVD release as an opportunity to also sell freaky hybrid fashion dolls. —Michael Main
It’s 1814: They’ve never seen fashion styles like ours before.
Green-skinned Frankie Stein and two of her fellow-students pose in front of a time portal.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

Hello Now

Teenager Jude enjoys thinking in similes and metaphors, so much so that perhaps Jude’s whole story—being uprooted, meeting an odd man, and meeting an otherworldly boy who sees no difference between space and time—is itself a metaphor for first love. The odd boy, Novo, has equally odd conversations with Jude—I’m unsure whether the conversations are deep or metaphors or both or neither—while he manipulates time, space and memories. —Michael Main
You are the place I return to, in between times. My fulcrum, the point at my center, around which all of me turns. You are my chance at stillness. The rock in my water. I know you.
Six circular photos show an empty sea and two children jumping into it from a small cliff.
  • Fantasy
  • Experimental
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel