Classic prints modified to tell the ghastly alternate history of monsters and elder gods

Matthew Buchholz has a great Etsy store where he sells modified classic prints that tell the story of a horrific alternate history populated by elder gods and evil emperors and vast krakens from the deep.

Alternate Histories by alternatehistories on Etsy (via Super Punch)

• [disillusion]

  Sure, it’s all fun in games now, until someone actually starts believing these as a fact of our past…

  • [Donald Petersen]

    You kids today don’t know what we went through to defeat Fafner, the Leviathan of Los Angeles.  You go ahead and sleep peacefully tonight, secure in the “knowledge” that the USGS spoonfeeds you about faultlines and tectonics.  We, your ignored elders, remember what monstrous titan slumbers fitfully ‘neath the Subway Terminal Building at 4th and Hill Streets.  We remember why the tunnels were sealed… and every time the city trembles beneath its cracked streets, we pray Fafner sleeps just a bit longer.

• [nem0fazer]

  Wonderful. Now to convince wifey we need several of these on our walls.

• [zombiebob]

  this is effin awesome

• [Tim Drew Stevenson]

  Awesome stuff;

  Inspired now to crack open that bottle of Bonny Doon Cigare Volant tonight…

• [pastafarian]

  Ah, now I know where Rick Perry gets his history lessons from!

• [Rich Keller]

  I just have two words:
  Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald. http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdfIf linking to his pdf is a bad thing, he is free to send Amanda Palmer over to my house to beat me up. 

• [M. Lens-FitzGerald]

  got the la map http://www.etsy.com/listing/78109943/down-town-los-angeles-in-1909

• [Miroslav Vuckovic]

  Where’s Cthulhu?

• [Robert Brewster Jr]

  @Miroslav Vuckovic you beat me to it! Yeah, where’s Cthulhu? Seriously, these are awesome, I’ll probably get one for my cave…