Shopping

“I pass trays of spun-sugar animals, little acorn cups filled with wine, enormous sculptures of horn, and a stall where a bent-backed woman takes a brush and draws charms on the soles of shoes.”

– Holly Black, The Wicked King (Mandrake Market)

We are, first and foremost, a wonder market, a Halloween market, a meeting-place and a Market Day; that is to say, if we did not believe in stuffing our weekend full of the traditional entertainment known to the history of Wonderplace Alpha, you could spend all three days merely exploring our vast and variegated Marketplace.

The Merchants of Wonderplace Alpha will imparadise you with wonders whose ever-evolving thrills are famed in story, song, legend, and, sometimes, graffiti. We are, after all, a Marketplace so beloved that Cosmic Horrors have been known to stop devouring Reality in order to go back home, grab their wallets, and come back to glom some t-shirts.

We advise you to bring a vast fortune, as you are going to find so many things you’ll want to buy that you will otherwise spend part of the weekend in a state of pleasant frustration from only being able to buy SOME of everything.

As a multi-genre Faire, we invite you to support the small, the quirky, the offbeat businesses who’ve come to show their wares to the Wonderplace community.

You are welcome to speak to them in character, regardless of whether you’re of Fable, Albion, the Wasteland, or Darkling, or whether you’re of the tribes of Dwarves, Nerds, of general Weirdos.

Perhaps you’d like to purchase a Sword, take lessons in the Quarterstaff, assess a Victorian phlogiston-blaster. Or you might wish to acquire some sort of garb—perhaps a stylish kilt, an enrapturing cloak,