How have I never encountered this site before? It is utterly splendid.

How to Be a Retronaut is run by historical consultant Chris Wild. The site’s tagline is “Ever get the feeling you’re living in the wrong time?” and it is an almost inexplicable collection of vintage/time-travel/steampunk/godonlyknows photos and minutiae, ranging from Victorian surrealism through eternally-cuddling skeletons to memorial effigies.

There are videos which purport to show time travelers and photos of Australian criminals from the 1920s and anatomical drawings of mermaids and…let’s just say you’re going to be here for a while.

Danish artist John/Don Kenn* has “a set of twins and not much time for anything. But when I have time I draw monsterdrawings on post-it notes.”

The drawings are all wordless and don’t even have titles, and they are all creepy as hell.

The artistic style puts me in mind a bit of both Gahan Wilson and Charles Addams, and it’s remarkable how much is suggested by just a single scene. A few of them rather charmingly depict people and monsters interacting playfully, but there’s a definite feeling of, “Oh, this isn’t going to end well,” about most of them.

There are lots of giants and teeth and floating and children being menaced and after you look through the archives you’ll find yourself glancing nervously over your shoulder every so often. Fantastic stuff.

(via ComicsAlliance)

*The URL is “johnkenn” and his profile says his name is John Kenn, but the site is called “Don Kenn Gallery,” so you figure it out.