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Don’t Get Lost in ‘The Backrooms’

In this short, nine-minute video by Kyle Parsons, an amateur film crew is wrapping up an exterior scene for what looks to be a low-budget horror movie. Then there's a sudden lurching motion, a yelp ...

Video: ‘The Ash Tree,’ by M.R. James

A charmingly creepy period piece, the BBC's half-hour, 1975 adaptation of the classic M.R. James ghost story "The Ash Tree" opens with a long pastoral sequence — a figure on horseback, riding through bucolic English countryside. ...

Ian McKellan reads Shakespeare backed by the Fleshtones on Andy Warhol’s TV show

There's so much '80s in here — and it's Sonnet No. 20, BTW. This little cluster of pop-cultural flotsam and jetsam is exactly what the Internet exists for ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_RPe0JdQY

Video: J.G. Ballard on sex, violence, surrealism and Shanghai

James Graham Ballard, one of the most singular and bracing authors of science and speculative fiction writing in English, is the subject of a very British half-hour interview via the old BBC talk show Face ...

Video: Ursula K. Le Guin reads from “Lavinia”

The great author reads from one of her many masterpieces. "Lavinia" is a gorgeous, vivid, tragic and wild retelling of Virgil's "Aeneid" from the point of view of Lavinia, the otherwise marginalized wife of the ...

Video: Neil Gaiman’s “The Mushroom Hunters,” read by Amanda Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6sdSAcNkw

Video: Samuel R. Delany profile, interview and readings

Samuel R. Delany is a unique force in science fiction, fantasy and literature whose output over the decades includes early pulp adventures, epic science fiction, philosophical works of fantasy, memoir, criticism, and commentary. Here's a ...

Video: Harlan Ellison on NBC’s Today Show

In which the inimitable Mr. Ellison talks about one of his storefront storywriting marathons, this one based on a prompt from NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SREoQQ2XUh4

Animation: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” by C.S. Lewis (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP5uXoNf7Nc This animated take on the classic fantasy tale dates back to 1979, and was produced by the Children's Television Workshop.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Chuck Jones animation)

A rare treat — an animation team led by the legendary Chuck Jones, taking on Rudyard Kipling's classic tale from "The Jungle Book." Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a fierce young mongoose battling a ferocious family of lethal ...