To all my readers who have followed what I have attempted to craft as entertaining, informative and enlightening blog posts over the last few months, I give my most heartfelt wishes of the season whether it’s a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, A Happy New Year, or a happy celebration of the sun starting its long journey northward after the longest night of the year (which is a perfectly good reason to celebrate in my opinion…)

As a suitable present, I give you two steampunk holiday musical selections–from Unwoman and Abney Park:

On the eleventh day of Steampunk Christmas,

My true love gave to me:

Twelve steampunk movies.

The iconic image of the Man in the Moon from Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon. (1902)

Since the steampunk culture started with literature–both the proto-steampunk works of Verne, Wells, et al, and first steampunk novels of the 1970s and 1980s–it only seems fitting that those works eventually be adapted for the big screen.  Here are some favorites:

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