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The web site versions of the Thrilling Tales are free... but if you'd like to help support them - by which I especially mean more of them - or even if you just want to have a little bit of the retro future for your very own, consider these fine ideas:

Help to Launch the hardcover edition of The Lair of the Clockwork Book


Kickstarter is a novel way for artists, musicians and just about anyone else to raise funds for their projects, just like a Public Broadcasting fund drive. Backers pledge their contributions in return for Fabulous Prizes... but if the funding goal isn't met, no money changes hands and the whole deal is off.

If you'd like to help support the next phase of the Thrilling Tales project, you can pitch in on my Kickstarter page. Which would make you so cool that I'm kind of nervous about standing next to you.

This time around we're trying to fund a limited, full color hardback edition of The Lair of the Clockwork Book: it'll have foil stamping on its linen-covered binding, and it'll be printed on heavy weight archival paper, with a nifty dust jacket.

Each Kickstarter copy will be signed and numbered. The number of copies in the limited edition will depend on how many people choose to back the project.

Click on through to see the trailer!

Buy the Thrilling Tales Books
Buy a Thrilling Tales Book

You couldn't show your support for Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual any more clearly than by taking a Tale home, could you?

Or Just Buy Me a Cup of Coffee

After all, this whole project runs on the Stuff of Life.

But seriously (wasn't I?), if you're a Buddhist monk who's given up all your worldly goods, or if you've simply read a Tale and want to drop a tip in the jar before you move on, you can do that with Paypal. I'm not proud.

Buy Some Other Swell Stuff

On the other hand... maybe you've read the web version and liked it, but you don't really want it as a book. It could happen.

Art of the Retro Future

Then you might also like to know that at my Retropolis site I offer T-shirts, posters, prints, business cards, coffee mugs, blank books and lots of other things, all featuring my art of the retro future.

Have a look!

And beyond that... well, I've made some other kinds of art you may like. For example:

Saga Shirts
Ars Celtica
Celtic Art Books
Celtic Art & Retro-Futuristic Design
The Non-Conformists Union, Local 404

Your Blog or Web Site Can Support the Tales, Too

The very best recommendations come from those we know and trust - so if you have your own blog or web site, and you do enjoy the Thrilling Tales, please share that with your readers!

Posting about the Tales is one thing - and a great thing, mind you - but your site can also display a banner or a Derange-O-Lab widget like the The Incredible Portable Personal Title-O-Tron - your site's very own version of the massive Title-O-Tron found here in the Derange-O-Lab.

The Personal Title-O-Tron is sleek and sidebar-sized, but it packs the same awesome power as the gigantic original device... so it can crank out those random Pulp Science Fiction titles all day and all night long, no matter what the giant robots are doing outside.

Art and Stories from the Retro Future

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