About

1. OVERVIEW

A. Station Manifest
Eidolon Station collects recordings of characters, mostly in the public domain, of a speculative or paranormal nature. Like Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton, Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Warren Ellis’ Planetary, Eidolon Station might function as an encyclopedia or bestiary for creators interested in combining universes, forming super teams, or simply working with characters with established backstories.

B Station Function
Eidolon Station provides entries on fantastical public domain characters with links to their source material, available for free on websites such as Comic Book Plus, Digital Comic Museum, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, Luminist Pulp Archives, and many other sources found across the web.

C. Station Holdings
Eidolon Station consists of entries compiled from Wikipedia, Jess Nevins’ Pulps, Victoriana, and Encyclopedias, the Public Domain Super Heroes Fandom Wiki, and many other sources. Entry content has been copy-edited and image quality improved where possible.

2. NOTES

D. Public Domain
To learn about the Public Domain, see Stanford Copyright and Fair Use, Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, The Public Domain Image Archive and The Public Domain Review, Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2025 to all who celebrate (17 Dec 2024), The Public Domain Cinematic Universe from Why is this Interesting?, and Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library from It’s Nice That.

E. Narrative Art
Eidolon Station uses the best images available for each character or story. The goal of the website is to value the drawing as much as, or even sometimes more than, the text content. An example of this is the work of 19th century print maker Yoshitoshi. More than 50 entries were added just because his artwork is so cool.

F. Tools
Eidolon Station was built using Google Sheets for entry management, WP All Import to create and update posts, WordPress, and the WordPress Bootstrap Starter Theme from afterimagedesigns.com/wp-bootstrap-starter. Space Station Soma on SOMA FM and Hypnagogue Podcast for concentration.