Jabberwocky

: For other uses of the name Jabberwocky, see Jabberwocky (disambiguation).

Derivative works

• Between 1905 and 1907, Chapman Hall published a children's magazine called Jabberwock.
• In 1943, Henry Kuttner, writing as Lewis Padgett, published a science fiction short story called Mimsy were the Borogoves in the magazine Astounding, which has since been republished in several anthologies. It posits that the poem is actually a communication with hidden meaning from intelligent aliens.
• In 1971, Donovan released his children's album H.M.S. Donovan, which features the poem "Jabberwocky" set to music. The melody is identical to that of "Celtic Rock", a Donovan song released on Open Road in 1970.
• In 1977, Terry Gilliam directed a movie called Jabberwocky. A poster for the movie featured a colorized version of the Jabberwocky illustration, and the first stanza of the poem is recited at the start of the film. The movie's plot very loosely resembles that of the poem.
• In 1999, Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman made Jabberwocky, a progressive rock concept album based on the poem.
• There has been a television series called Jabberwocky, and also a card game called Jabberwocky.
• The Jabberwock appears in American McGee's Alice as a boss. The Jabberwock symbolizes Alice's guilt and makes it clear to her why she ended up in Rutledge's Asylum to begin with. The only way to kill the Jabberwock here this time was with the Jabberwock eye staff, which players will not have assembled when they first meet him. When players finally fight him near the end of the game, the Jabberwock is a very unforgiving boss, especially on the hard and nightmare difficulty settings. The Jabberwock may even be tougher than the true final boss of the game in some cases.
• The Jabberwock appeared in early versions of Dungeons & Dragons' Monster Manual; later it was replaced by the Tarrasque.
• In 2005 experimental musicians The Books released an album entitled Lost and Safe, track three of which is entitled "Vogt Dig for Kloppervok", which translates to "Beware the Jabberwock" and is so named for the Danish translation by Arne Herløv Petersen.
• After a fun night of drinking and reading Lewis Carroll poems in 1949, four members of the Brown University Glee Club decided to quit the group and start their own a capella group. The name of the group? The Jabberwocks. They are Brown's oldest a capella group and perform on campus, around the northeast, and overseas.