Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, Magicians, etc.

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Novel

The Worm Ouroboros


For the most part, the story is a high fantasy in which three chiefs of Demonland—Lord Juss, Spitfire, and Brandoch Daha—embark on a heroic quest to rescue the fourth lord from his imprisonment in the mountains of Impland. However, at the end, Queen Sophonisba undertakes a resolution to the final problem that could well involve time travel. —Michael Main
Lord, it is an Ambassador from Witchland and his train. He craveth present audience."
A black-and-white, diamond-speckled snake with hands and teeth winds
                around itself several times and eats its own tail.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Strange Tales #5

The Room without a Door


Henry believes that his lifes work to travel through time has all been for naught, so he turns to black magic instead. —Michael Main
I’ve worked and slaved for twenty years as a scientist to find a means of traveling through time.
An old man delivers a frantic monolog to himself in a room decorated with
                symbols of black magic.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #8

The Man Who Couldn’t Be Killed!


The law of the land states that Henri Benrey must be executed on a Monday, so he gets a medicine man on Devil’s Island to give him a potion that will wipe out all his Mondays. —Michael Main
They can not hang me now, Annette! I have all the time in the world to escape from this island!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Feature Film

Warlock I

Warlock


A captured warlock in 1691 Massachusetts is thrown forward 300 years to Los Angeles with warlock-hunter Giles Redferne in hot pursuit. Twentieth century chase ensues with pretty nurse Kassandra aiding the hunter. —Michael Main
A grand grimore? Here? Now?
A neatly dressed, barefooted Julian Sands (as the Warlock) casts a demonic
                shadow.
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Harry Potter 3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Compared to the books, I find the Harry Potter movies drawn-out and boring, but I rewatched this one during the pandemic and found that I enjoyed all three thirteen-year-olds as well as Hagrid, Sirius, Snape, Lupin, and—most of all—the fact that the filmmakers didn’t blithely destroy the single static timeline out of a misplaced sense that time travelers are meant to change the timeline willy-nilly. —Michael Main
Hang on! That’s not possible. Ancient Runes is at the same time as Divination. You’d have to be in two classes at once.
Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter), Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger), and
                Rupurt Grint (as Ron Weasley) are watching something that spooks Harry, fascinates
                Hermione, and terrifies Ron.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

7 Zwerge #2

7 Zwerge: Der Wald ist nicht genug


In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, an older Snow White is the distraught mother in danger of losing her child, and she enlists the help of her seven old friends who (among other things) travel through a magic mirror to modern-day Hamburg. Do they time travel? That depends on whether you consider their homeland to be a secondary world (which implies travel from one world or universe to another) or a part of old Germany (which implies actual time travel!). There is a case to be made for it being old Germany, given that the first movie in the 7 Zwerge series told us that they lived in a “sinister forest, deep in the heart of a country known as . . . Germany.” —based on Wikipedia
The seven dwarves pose in front of a giant stone image of the number seven in a
                giant red dwarf hat.
  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Novel Series

books 1–5

MacCoinnich Time Travels

  • by Catherine Bybee
  • (Wild Rose Press et al., November 2009 to November 2013)

Initially a trilogy, the series was expanded to five books of modern women’s romances with 16th-century Scottish hunks. —based on publicity material
He let her walk for several minutes before attempting to speak to her again, “I would be happy to escort you on a walk. But, we need to get you more properly dressed.” He knew the effect watching her walk in tight jeans was having on him, he could only imagine what his men must have thought when she stormed the court yard.
A Scottish castle, a woman in an off-the-shoulder dress, and a silhouette of a
                rider on horse.
  • Romance
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

WandaVision


I don't understand this power, but I will.
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  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Cartoon

What If  . . . ? (s01e04)

What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?


As we all know, when the world’s formost surgeon, Doctor Strange, lost the use of his hands in a car wreck, it prompted him to search out mystic treatments and eventually become the Master of the Mystic Arts. But what if he had lost something else in that wreck? —Michael Main
The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
A computer animated cartoon drawing of Benedict Cumberbatch (as Doctor Strange)
                casting a spell.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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
Flash Fiction

The Alchemies of Time


A king who fears only the passage of time takes one drastic step after another to try to stop time altogether. —Michael Main
Time will take us away from what we love, who we love, and Time will take us, finally, from ourselves.
Stylized outline of a rocket launching in a green circular seal for
                Daily Science Fiction.
  • Fantasy
  • Time Phenomena
Novel

Time Witch 1

So You Think You’ve Married a Warlock?


Essie lives with her Uncle Rick, who took her in when her parents died, when she was about four. He owns a clock and watch shop and she works for him, doing almost everything needed to run the shop except dealing with the watches and clocks. The shop is losing money, so she goes to look for another job. Normal enough, right? But . . . she gets the job almost instantly, time stops when she is rescued from almost falling into a canal, one of her neighbors is murdered, she sees someone that no one else does, and she is off on a business trip with her handsome boss—to Las Vegas. And then things start to get really weird. —Tandy Ringoringo
And this kind of uncontrolled reaction we’re having right here, two strong time-stopping powers together—if we keep kissing, we won’t just create creepy frozen mannequins out of everyone around us. And I shouldn’t have used the word ripples, either, because we won’t create mere ripples, Essie. We’ll create tsunamis. People will lose time, gain time, grow older, grow younger . . . timelines will get all mixed up. The past and the present will collide. It’ll be . . . messy.
A young woman wearing a witch hat and holding purple tulips.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time Witch 2

So You Think You’re a Sleuth?


Essie’s husband Julian and his brothers have been arrested and imprisoned. With the removal of spells that had blocked memories of other family members, Essie learns that she has an identical twin sister (in looks at least) and an aunt. Some mysteries are solved, but new ones appear. Magical devices that can assist with or impede the abilities of Time Witches appear. Essie works with (and without) the Wayfarers (magical society's police force) to solve murders. And . . . is Julian really a bad guy? —Tandy Ringoringo
And I would tell you that you need to be careful when you go back in time—make sure you don’t change a thing, no matter how tempting that might be.
A contemplative young woman, dressed in red and wearing a witch hat, stands
                beside a black cat.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time Witch 3

So You Think You Can Dance?


Essie is missing Julian, who’s in witness protection, and she’s caught a chill that simply will not go away, even though it’s summer. The Wayfarers (magical police) are avoiding her, which only makes her suspicious that they’re using him for bait. So, when her boss needs to go undercover at a dance class to investigate a possibly fraudulant insurance claim, Essie demands to join him to distract herself from her woes. —Tandy Ringoringo
‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’
A young witch in a black hat sits cross-legged beside a black cat.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time Witch 4

So You Think You Can Dance?


Essie is missing Julian, who’s in witness protection, and she’s caught a chill that simply will not go away, even though it’s summer. The Wayfarers (magical police) are avoiding her, which only makes her suspicious that they’re using him for bait. So, when her boss needs to go undercover at a dance class to investigate a possibly fraudulant insurance claim, Essie demands to join him to distract herself from her woes. —Tandy Ringoringo
‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’
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  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time Witch 4

So You Think You Can Turn Back Time?


Belinda, Essie's identical twin, is still in love with Vince, who is dealing with PTSD from when Julian’s brothers kidnapped him. Vince is refusing to get any help for his PTSD, and he is in a temporary assignment in Dublin, forcing Belinda to go to Dublin if she wants to keep their relationship alive. It is a very lopsided relationship. —Tandy Ringoringo
[. . .] it can be kind of mind-blowing and a little bit nauseating to jump through time, so trying to hold an invisibility spell of your own at the same time could be hard. Hey.’ She gave me a quick hug. ‘Don’t worry, okay? If Bill and Ted can handle time travel, then so can we.’
A white cat sits behind a young woman with red lipstick and a crown of flowers
                on her head.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel