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1946 brought unexpected joy following the invention of an atomic powered device specifically designed to put happily satisfied smiles on the delighted faces of countless numbers of eager but frustrated women who not previously been able to enjoy playing with a large organ in bed.
The invention of “Colour TV” brought multiplicitous changes to western societies, including a growing dissatisfaction of living life in monochrome.
Soon citizens were aspiring to live lives as colourful as the hyperreal technicolour unreality that watched them from their screens.
In the dark days of 1956, with a ceaseless bombardment of necroplasmic rays from saucers of the merciless Martian Warpmind taking an ever greater toll on humanity, no one could be spared from the war effort.
Even children played vital roles in the rapid-response messenger corps.
In 2016 the RSPB (Royal Society for the Persecution of Birds) was delighted to announce the extinction of the Golden Unicorncrake.
Although numbers had plummeted due to pesticides & habitat destruction, the avians survived until boobytraps were set in all remaining nesting sites.
Sir Alistair Rookley’s book of practical advice for aspiring Dark Magicians,
‘Defence Against The Light Arts’, recommends always carrying an inverted crucifix “To repel Evangelical Christian vampires.”
He states,
“If this fails, prepare to douse the Jesusferatu with Unholy Water”
Throughout the darkest days of OO2 (Otherworld Otherwar 2), the UK (Undead Kingdom of Grand Britain) was lead by its greatest Prime Monster, Sir Winstill Churchstone, who swore to
“Bite them on the beaches, in the fields & in the streets, bite them in the hills & never surrender”
In 1962 a spate of nocturnal fangmanglings left no respectable cheesemonger’s leg feeling safe.
After over 1067.3 complaints of attacked ankles, gnawed knees, chewed calves, fanged femurs & bitten buttocks, the Necropolitan Police identified the perpetrator as Count Mousferatu.
Nowadays the old dark art & craft of Corn Dollying is seen as a twee hobby practiced by the aesthetically challenged middle-classes.
But there are still some in remote villages who make Straw Poppets traditionally in order to force Corn Spirits to possess their walking scarecrows
One of the worst afflictions affecting ventriloquists’ dummies is the contagious curse of Quadocularistic Psychicpsychosis, a metamorphic mutation spread by demonically possessed woodworms.
Infected dummies develop extra eyes & an insatiable urge to bloodily slaughter audiences.
In 1953 renowned psychologist, carnival owner & enthusiastic amateur cyberneticist, Dr Sigmund Schadenfreud, invented a fairground ride which amplified the feelings of those who rode it.
Passengers felt unbridled joy, fear, lust & abject terror.
It was an emotional rollercoaster.