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

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
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