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Apr 20, 20232 min read
Book Nook: Lest Darkness Fall
Lest Darkness Fall, L Sprague de Camp. Available from Amazon or elsewhere. This is a series devoted to the review of a variety of AH...


Apr 19, 20237 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett: The Carpet People
By Thomas Anderson Terry Pratchett at New York Comic Con, 2012. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the first article of a series...


Apr 17, 20237 min read
Parade Your Vocabulary
By Eoin Mulligan British, Russian, French, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian soldiers in Paris, Bastille Day 1916. Soldiers have a...


Apr 14, 202311 min read
An Alternate History of Horror X: Kensington Gore, Part 1
By Ryan Fleming Three of the greats: Lugosi, Lee, Pallance. The Vampire Strikes Back. Image from Wikimedia. In writing about the history,...


Apr 13, 20235 min read
What if the Occupation of Alcatraz succeeded?
By Jeff Provine This article was originally posted on This Day in Alternate History and the original article can be found there. Please...

Apr 12, 202316 min read
Panellists pontificate please
As someone once said: "I'm listening." It was either Big Brother or Frasier, though it can be hard to tell the difference. Last week, we...


Apr 10, 202311 min read
Writing AH: Anachronisms
By Tom Anderson "My God, Sir, I've lost my leg." "My God, Sir, if you had a GPS tracker device fitted to it, you'd never lose it."...


Apr 7, 20235 min read
What if Victoria had answered the letter from Tewodros II?
By Jeff Provine This article was originally posted on This Day in Alternate History and the original article can be found there. Please...


Apr 5, 202315 min read
Panel Beating
No, not that sort of panel beating. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons. In this article, I’ll be posing a few questions for some regulars...


Apr 3, 20232 min read
Letter from the Editor
By David Flin. The new Editor, one David Flin, looks out over his new domain. He feels he should note that his hair has more grey in it...


Mar 31, 20234 min read
What if Robert B. Randolph had killed Andrew Jackson?
By Steve Payne, Jeff Provine and Allen W. McDonnell This article was originally posted on Today in Alternate History (twitter)and the...


Mar 30, 20239 min read
Tales from Development Hell: A Confederacy of Dunces
By Ryan Fleming Can a work of fiction be cursed? If people, places or things can be cursed then why not a work of fiction too? Such...


Mar 29, 20236 min read
What if there was a Muslim Industrial Revolution?
By Jeff Provine This article was originally posted on This Day in Alternate History and the original article can be found there. Please...


Mar 28, 202321 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 27: TNG Spinoffs of the Movie Era
By Tom Anderson Last time we looked at Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) non-canon spinoffs, such as comics and novels, which were...


Mar 27, 202311 min read
What if the Atlantic Slave Trade had ended early?
By Steve Payne and Jeff Provine This article was originally posted on Today in Alternate History (twitter) and the original article can...


Mar 24, 20233 min read
Review: Shambling Towards Hiroshima
By Matthew Kresal In his recent series of articles, Ryan Fleming has been exploring the history of the horror genre and how it might have...


Mar 22, 202314 min read
An Alternate History of Horror IX: Seduction of the Innocent
By Ryan Fleming In the present day and for most of their history, comic books have been synonymous with the superhero genre. The genre...


Mar 21, 20233 min read
Alternate Antarcticas
By Jared Kavanagh Antarctica. The White Continent. The last continent reached by humans. The unexplored frontier of alternate history....

Mar 20, 20237 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 5
By Gary Oswald, Ishan Sharma and Lilith Roberts One of the most common forms of microfiction you find on AH forums is the wikibox, an...


Mar 17, 20238 min read
Tales from Development Hell: Superman Lives
By Ryan Fleming In popular culture there are some works that have managed to become famous despite never happening at all. Projects can...
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