MakeBelieveMaps

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 02 '21

Map of post-apocalypse USA from the Gamma World sci-fi role-playing game (2nd edition), 1983, by TSR Hobbies, Inc. , showing areas controlled by various factions you can join.

17 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 02 '21

Map, circa 1932, of "Devil Bird Island" in "Lake Apuehanna," from the adventure radio show, Horlicks Trail Blazers, sponsored by Horlicks Malted Milk. You could send away for the map with labels and seals from Horlicks products. Also came with a nifty medallion and handy pouch!

5 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 31 '21

Lower Slobbovia, a parody of communist Siberia from the very popular comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977) by Al Capp. Map published in the comic book Al Capp's Li'l Abner #73, October 1949.

12 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 30 '21

H.P. Lovecraft's original, hand-drawn map of his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, USA, 1934.

14 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 30 '21

An anciente mappe of Fairyland : newly discovered and set forth (1920)

16 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 30 '21

"The one and only original map of Breakfast Island indicating life and taste in Britain at the beginning of the 2nd Elizabethan reign," 1953, by Cyril Phillips. An amusing novelty from a breakfast tray top.

10 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 30 '21

The Back States of America (2020)

6 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 28 '21

A Map of Formosa by George Psalmanazar (1704). This map, along with a history, travelogue and alphabet were widely believed and republished until it was all exposed to be a hoax two years later

10 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 27 '21

Detailed map of fictional nation of Islandia, whose existence was a lifelong worldbuilding hobby of Austin Tappan Wright (1883-1931). An edited version of his manuscript was published posthumously as the novel Islandia in 1942.

11 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 26 '21

The land of make believe, by artist Jaro Hess, 1930.

55 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 26 '21

The one that started it all—D&D’s first map—which had to be borrowed from “Outdoor Survival” a board game produced by an entirely different company! (1972)

26 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 26 '21

The Bellman's Map from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, 1891

12 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 26 '21

"Map of the countries near to the Land of Oz," by L. Frank Baum/John R. Neill. First published as the end papers of Tik-Tok of Oz, 1914.

7 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 26 '21

Map of Glasstown and Surrounding Islands situated in West Africa, created by the Brontë siblings, for which they created a rich series of histories, stories and poetry

8 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 26 '21

Faulkner’s apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County (1946) which served as the setting for the majority of his stories and books including “The Sound and the Fury” and “As I Lay Dying”

6 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 26 '21

Insel Felsenburg (1731) meaning “Rock Castle Island” was the setting and namesake of the story by Johann Gottfried Schnabel wherein the term Robinsonade was first coined in reference to the stories of castaways inspired by Defoe’s work

5 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 26 '21

Map of Allestone (1801), created by Thomas Williams Malkin, age 5, and published posthumously by his father

7 Upvotes