Presented by Brett King

An authentic Victorian Magic Lantern projection show, using an antique projector and beautiful glass slides, most over 100 years old. Your lanternist, Brett King, will share dark tales about Chicago, the World’s Fair, and Alice in Wonderland.


Brett King is a man of many hats – a costumer, prop-maker, gamemaster, game designer, presenter, Magic Lantern performer, and convention organizer. His life-long love of role-playing games and storytelling carried over into his steampunk panels, props, and costumes. He always aims to entertain, inform, and inspire at conventions, whether running steampunk-styled Dungeons & Dragons games, teaching about automata or prop making, entertaining as his troll-hunting alter-ego Gustaf Danielsson, or presenting Magic Lantern shows.


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