You think psychedelic caterpillars and crazed milliners are the byproducts of a demented mind? Try some of the bizarre goods we found in our search for the weirdest, wackiest products inspired by the world of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland...

The nonsensical universe of talking animals, magic potions, and mad tea parties dreamt up in 1865 by Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll) has inspired nearly a century and a half of fervent Alice fandom, running the gamut from little girls to hippies to an entire subculture of Gothic Lolitas in Japan. Sure, you can choose to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass as the innocent misadventures of a young Victorian-era girl in a land populated by a menagerie of strange creatures -- or, you can view them as blitzed-out drug parables, fetish-worthy fantasies, and macabre tales of horror, like the folks behind some of these Alice-inspired products do...

Jan Svankmejer's Alice (1988)

Alice in Wonderland had seen plenty of on-screen iterations by the time Jan Svankmejer unleashed his take in 1988, but the Czech filmmaker's unique style lent Alice a disquieting grotesqueness that focused on the psychological implications of its heroine's journey. Was her trip down the rabbit hole (or, in this case, the elevator shaft) real or imagined? Crafted with a blend of live-action and stop-motion animation, Svankmejer's fantasy is cluttered with unnatural skeleton creatures, grimy interiors, menacingly surreal enemies like the scissor-wielding White Rabbit out to get her at every turn -- the kind of dark Wonderland that would give any kid nightmares.

Malice in Kulturland propaganda circa 1915

Alice's encounters with the murderous villains of Wonderland were frightening… especially when said villains were the Germans! Err… that's not quite how we read Lewis Carroll's books, but it's how author Horace Wyatt transformed Alice's adventures into World War I propaganda, with the warmongering Red King persecuting all of Europe "for not being German" and political figures of the time standing in for Carroll's magical characters. Under threat of expulsion and death, Alice awakes safely from her anti-German nightmare, though any children unfortunate enough to hear this lame political version of Wonderland in 1915 got completely cheated out of all the fun.

Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls

We've seen a boom in Alice comic adaptations of late, but one of the first artists to give Lewis Carroll's innocent young heroine the grown-up treatment was Alan Moore, whose Lost Girls saga (published by Top Shelf) combined the fairytale stories of Alice, The Wizard of Oz's Dorothy, and Peter Pan's Wendy Darling into a decidedly adult pornographic novel. Meeting in a hotel on the eve of World War I, the now-grown women recount their sordid sexual histories to each other (Who'd have guessed Alice would be so active at her all-girls' school?) and, naturally, also get it on with each other. If that doesn't blow your fairytale-worshipping mind, nothing will.

Return to Wonderland

It's been many years since Alice fell down the rabbit hole as a small girl; now she's a very disturbed woman whose daughter, Calie, is about to discover the surreal horrors that lie in Wonderland for herself. In this horror comic series, spun-off from Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales (told in order as Return to Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland, and Escape from Wonderland), the familiar villains and characters of Wonderland appear in twisted incarnations – an undead White rabbit, a lecherous Hatter, a murderous Cheshire Cat – while many of those who don't get in on the action get their own one-off installments in the Tales from Wonderland prequel comics.

Miyuki-chan in Wonderland manga and anime

The Japanese have had a long and storied relationship with the world of Alice in Wonderland (just Google "Gothic Lolita"), and inexplicably many of their cultural appreciations fixate on the racy side of Wonderland. Enter Miyuki-chan, the eroticized Japanese schoolgirl version of Alice, who meets a host of exotic characters --- all lesbians -- involved in various adventures that parallel Carroll's tamer original exploits. Catch the 30-minute animated version on DVD to see your favorite Wonderland characters come to life in silly, naughty fashion (i.e. the White Rabbit as a Playboy bunny, the Red Queen as an S&M dominatrix).

Alice in Wonderland Café in Tokyo, Japan

We already knew fans loved their Alice in Japan, but one Tokyo restaurant takes it a tad far. Making your Alice fantasies a reality is the Alice in Wonderland Café in the Ginza district, where the waitresses are attired in full Alice cosplay. Everything here is tied to the Wonderland theme, from the food to the décor to the strange and confusing bathrooms. As of this writing, there have been no reports of extreme shrinking or growing among café patrons (but be forewarned). 

Mezco Toys' Living Dead Dolls in Wonderland

The deranged creations spawned from the minds of horror geeks Ed Long and Damien Glonek take an acid trip into Wonderland in this Alice-themed series from Mezco Toys. In the limited-edition Wonderland variant set of five, see Sadie as a blood-spattered undead Alice, accompanied by the Eggzorcist as the White Rabbit, Sybil as a Goth-meets-Clockwork Orange Mad Hatter, the hellcat Jinx as the Cheshire Cat, and the demonic Inferno as a pouty Red Queen. ($229.95 for the set of 5.)

Madame Alexander Caterpillar doll

Scary as those Living Dead Dolls are, there's something even creepier about this collectible miniature from (non-sinister) doll company Madame Alexander that will replace all previous notions of the Caterpillar in our nightmares to come. Why? It's a baby smoking a hookah atop a mushroom! With a caterpillar's body! How'd you like to have this creature staring at you from the mantelpiece with those rosy cheeks and vacant eyes? Our Alice in Wonderland dreams have never been this insane.

Perfumes by the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

Want to smell like Alice? The vintage-leaning modern apothecaries of the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab can make it happen with their line of Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson-inspired perfumes. At $15 per 5 ml bottle, you can close your eyes and imagine characters like the Dormouse ("A dizzying eddy of four teas brushed with light herbs and a breath of peony"), the White Rabbit ("Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen"), and the Mad Hatter ("A gentlemen's lavender-citron cologne unhinged by the feral pungence of black musk and a paroxysm of pennyroyal"), or order the Alice scent to wear yourself ("Curiouser and curiouser. Milk and honey with rose, carnation, and bergamot" – just like we imagined!). For an extra cost, get your perfume in a gorgeous silver scent locket imprinted with the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, or the White Rabbit.

LSD acid blotter art

Let's be honest: Alice in Wonderland is a hippie's fairytale. Did you think the Caterpillar was smoking tobacco in his hookah, sitting on that giant mushroom? Alice gets opium smoke in her face, eats and drinks some mind-bending psychotropic drugs, and sips on whatever the Mad Hatter is drinking, all of which explain how she encounters the weirdest mind-bending events imaginable. So it's no surprise that an LSD enthusiast somewhere printed this artful ode to Alice's journey on a sheet of acid paper, depicting her stepping into a looking glass on one side and exiting on the other -- a work of blotter art appropriately trippy for a jaunt down the rabbit hole.