Via @archeohistories at Twitter: a "spirit kettle" for tea, guarded by a basilisk. (The fuel for the heating flame goes in the little pot underneath.)
faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid
harry houdini to his wife after a long exhausting dinner with arthur conan doyle
From what I can tell, the “Space Crowd” trope really thrived in the 80s and 90s. Here’s a great example: Gary Ruddell’s cover art for “Shufflepuck Cafe,” a 1988 Broderbund Software computer game about playing air hockey against aliens in a space cafe.






















