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Small press devoted to British #FolkHorror and the #Occult . Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo . Art director: @nathanielhebert . Shipping worldwide.
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IT’S HERE! Hares that are witches in disguise, ravens with prophetic powers, all-powerful toads, the demon king of cats.
🐇 The Animal Issue is now shipping worldwide. Get your copy here:
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Today is Michaelmas, the last day that blackberries can be eaten before they’re claimed by the Devil.
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The Dorset Ooser, a wooden mask with horns and a hinged jaw that allowed the mouth to open and close, featured on the cover of this legendary Reader's Digest book. The original purpose of the mask is still debated.
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The secret is out!
Explore a land of witchcraft, ancient rituals, and occult ceremonies with The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain.
Over 500 locations with magical links, including film, TV and literary locations and custom-made maps.
👉 Pre-order now:
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They’re here and they’re beautiful! We’ll be packing all your orders tonight 🖤
Get your copy from
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It's here! Vampires, alchemists, nightmares, moonlit churchyards, caverns and catacombs, strange creatures, sinister processions.
Pre-orders for The Darkness Issue are now open:
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⚡️GHOSTS FOR CHRISTMAS!⚡️ Our Yuletide Hauntings special is inspired by the tradition of telling ghost stories this time of the year.
👉🏼Pre-order on .
Shipping starts next week.
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⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️Yuletide Hauntings is now shipping worldwide.
👉🏼 Get yours on
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Submerge yourself in a world of secret cults, ancient rituals, demonic processions, nocturnal bacchanals, dark faeries, and Cornish zombies.
Pre-orders for The Wild Gods Issue are now open:
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Happy 10 issues to us! Here’s hoping we can bring you many more 🎂🎃
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Immerse yourself in a world of witch trials, oaths of secrecy, Devil worshippers, village secrets, cursed artefacts, and seductive enchantresses.
It's October, and pre-orders for The Malefice Issue are now open.
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The god Pan appears in 'The Magician' (Rex Ingram, 1926). This silent film is an adaptation of the novel by Somerset Maugham, who created a caricature of Aleister Crowley in the magician Oliver Haddo.
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It's here! Delve into a world of witchcraft, megalithic monuments, and pagan survivals in hidden rural areas.
Pre-orders for The Sacrifice Issue are now open:
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We spoke to
@Dazed
about paganism, re-enchantment, mysticism, and antidotes to capitalist realism.
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On the edge of Bodmin Moor stand The Hurlers, three stone circles said to be the petrified remains of men punished for playing the ancient game of hurling on a Sunday.
👉🏽More on
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“What is to happen to his soul? Which shall prevail? The Angel, or the Pandemonium; the sickness of power and obedience to power, or the sacred demon of ungovernableness.”
—David Rudkin, Penda’s Fen.
Today marks 50 years since Penda’s Fen was first broadcast.
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The pipes of Pan, the land of Faerie, journeys on the astral plane, visions of Britain, madness as a mystical quest.
We're back with a new issue devoted to the visionary experience. Pre-order The Unveiling Issue here:
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The witch trapped in a bottle collected from an old lady in Sussex by anthropologist Margaret Murray, who donated it to the Pitt Rivers Museum.
#OccultBritain
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IT IS TIME TO KEEP YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH THE WICKER MAN
A whole Wicker Man themed evening coming to BBC4 Radio Extra on Dec 2nd, including a full audio adaptation starring BRIAN BLESSED as Lord Summerisle, alongside programmes about folk horror, folk song and much more
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Hellebore is a toxic plant that has the power of altering perception. Associated with the water element, it is known for opening up portals to the Underworld and the subconscious. Also thought to be one of the ingredients for the witches' flying ointment.
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They’re here!
The Unveiling Issue is now shipping worldwide. Get your copy on
🇪🇺:
🇬🇧/🌎:
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Caulbearers are babies born with an intact amniotic sac (the caul). Those "born behind the veil" are gifted with second sight, and their cauls are often dried and kept as talismans.
Lord Byron, Napoleon, Freud, and Hamlet were all caulbearers.
#FolkloreThursday
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The gorgeous Viy (1967), based on Nikolai Gogol's short story, is currently available on
@Shudder
, and we can't recommend it enough.
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Hellebore is a toxic plant that has the power of altering perception. It is known for opening up portals to the Underworld and the subconscious, and thought to be one of the ingredients for the witches' flying ointment.
#FolkloreThursday
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For the ancients, the subterranean world was the realm of the dead; in the Medieval era it became the abode of demons.
Pre-orders for The Unearthing Issue are now open:
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“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.”
(Shirley Jackson)
We’re now open for submissions for The Malefice Issue. More info on
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Wistman’s Wood, the dwelling place of the demonic Wisht Hounds, who hunt across the moors at night, searching for unwary travellers to drag them to the Otherworld.
#OccultBritain
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Pilgrimages, rituals of crossings, malevolent lights luring travellers off the path, ley lines and megaliths.
Pre-orders for The Old Ways Issue are now open.
🌞 Old Ways bundle (zine + tote bag):
🪷 Magazine only:
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We’re currently open for submissions for our Beltane 2024 issue. For details on how to submit, check out our submission guidelines:
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Watch the trailer for The Malefice Issue. Shipping starts next week. Get your copy here:
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We're now open for submissions for our Beltane 2021 issue: The Unearthing Issue.
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The black granite plateau of Roche Rock has long been associated with witches and demons. The ruined 15th-century chapel was consecrated to St Michael the archangel, who defeated the Devil.
Read more in
#OccultBritain
.
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Ancient antlers, clashing swords, sacrificial May Queens, spectral skeleton horses. Pre-orders for The Ritual Issue are now open.
🌞The Ritual Bundle (limited edition tote bag + magazine):
🪷 Magazine only:
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We wrote this for the editorial of The Sacrifice Issue. Folklore is always political, and so are we. To quote
@HooklandGuide
,
#ReEnchantmentIsResistance
.
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“I was interested in the dark things that people feel… the rural setting, the nooks and crannies of woodland, the edges of fields. The ploughing, the labour, the sense of the soil…”
—Piers Haggard (1938 - 2023) discussing The Blood on Satan’s Claw in A History of Horror. RIP.
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Issue 3 is in the works, and the theme will be revealed soon! Once again, thank you, everyone, for your support.
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SURPRISE! The Magical Card Battle of Britain is here! Every round is a clash between the titans of Britain’s history of magic, real or fictional. Who will win this battle?
Pre-order your copy here. Shipping starts in early December:
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Games of cards that usher in cloven-footed strangers. Runic inscriptions that conjure up demons.
A communal warning uttered every Bonfire Night.
The calling of a supernatural agent comes with many risks.
Pre-order The Summoning Issue now.
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Dragonflies were known as the devil's darning needle, and they were believed to sew shut the eyelids of those who fell asleep outdoors.
#FolkloreThursday
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Occult Britain took us to Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness and to his grave in St Clement’s churchyard in Old Romney. We found three hag stones on the way.
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IT IS TIME! Hares that are witches in disguise, ravens with prophetic powers, all-powerful toads, the demon king of cats.
Pre-orders for The Animal Issue are now open.
👉🏽
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Roll up! Roll up! We're looking for pieces for our 7th issue, The Ritual Issue, out Beltane 2022.
👉 More info here:
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We are so grateful for your support. Thanks to all of you who have bought our little zines, and thanks for spreading the word. You’re helping us create new, bigger things, and we couldn’t do them without you 🖤
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Happy
#WorldBookDay
! May your day be full of mysterious books, arcane manuscripts, and forbidden knowledge.
📖🔮Illustration taken from ‘Hell is Other Readers’, from The Summoning Issue:
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It’s a wrap! The Malefice Issue is on the way to the printers 🍾
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In the folklore of North East England, worms are creatures with the appearance of wingless dragons and an appetite for destruction. John A Riley looks at how they’ve inspired writers and filmmakers, from Lewis Carroll to Ken Russell.
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Tonight is
#StMarksEve
. In British folklore, those who gather in their local churchyard may witness a shadowy parade: that of the spirits of the neighbours who would die within the next year.
More in
@Verity_Holloway
’s piece for The Darkness Issue.
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Hey,
#FolkloreThursday
friends, we’re a small print magazine devoted to
#folkhorror
and the
#occult
.
Our Beltane issue can be pre-ordered here:
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May you enter 2022 with the confidence and warmth of this fire demon. Our best wishes for the new year, and thank you for being there 🖤
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If you’ve pre-ordered The Wild Gods Issue you should be getting your copy very soon.
Happy
#WalpurgisNight
!
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Amidst the idyllic English countryside, the Wild Gods awaken to threaten everything that is respectable.
HELLEBORE: The Wild Gods Issue - coming Beltane 2020.
👉🏼 Submissions open until Sunday:
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This beauty will be sent to the printers very soon!
👉 Pre-order The Old Ways Issue on
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Tag yourself! 🐇🐐🐸 🐦🐍 🐈⬛
Pre-orders for The Animal Issue are now open:
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In Norfolk, the lantern men lured their victims to a watery death in the reed beds of the Fens. Some tales recommend lying face down in the mud to muffle any sound that could rouse them.
—
@IcySedgwick
on The Wandering Lights for The Old Ways Issue.
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Happy publication day to
@KJSoar
, one of our regular contributors. This British Library volume is very much recommended 🖤
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And it's a wrap! The Summoning Issue has gone to print and should be with us very soon.
Pre-order yours here:
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You wanted t-shirts and we’ve made some t-shirts. Pre-order now for a limited time only!
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Something’s brewing today, and we’ll be able to reveal it in a month’s time.
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Submissions now open for The Summoning Issue (Samhain 2021).
More info here:
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The Christmas decorations are up, the fire is lit, and we have some ghost stories ready.
Wishing you all a happy Christmas Eve. Stay safe 🖤
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"It all began with a 'mild electric shock' when laying his hand on a standing stone and the wild reaction of his pendulum."
In The Old Ways Issue,
@urbanprehisto
analyses how these three TV serials were likely influenced by the ideas of T C Lethbridge.
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The three standing stones of Trelleck in Wales were thought to be the result of a hurling contest between the Devil and Jack o’ Kent, who won the match.
Read more in
#OccultBritain
.
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Just discovered Hellebore and instantly obsessed? The new All Of Them Witches bundle is for you!
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Witches still live.
The Sacrifice Issue - coming October 2019.
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In 1932, Harry Price travelled to the Brocken in Germany to perform an ancient ritual designed to transform a young male goat into a boy. It failed, but Price was told "there were still witches to be found amongst the mountains if one searched long enough."
#FolkloreThursday
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Two years since we joined Twitter! How is that even possible? We’ve made many friends, produced five issues (number 6 is on the way) and have some exciting things up our sleeve. Chocolate cake, anyone?
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The Unveiling Issue should be back from the printers tomorrow. In the meantime, you can watch the trailer, with music by
@DreamDivision_
, and pre-order on .
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Boneless is a shapeless shadow "sliding behind and alongside in the dark night" on country roads in Somerset and Oxfordshire. Many travellers are said to have died of fright after seeing it.
#FolkloreThursday
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"One coffin only remains intact, but the lid has been loosened. There, shrivelled and mummified—but quite intact—lies the Croglin Vampire."
@DrSamGeorge1
writes about the origins of the English belief in vampires for The Darkness Issue.
👉Pre-orders on
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You're invited into our gallery of ghosts.
See more in Yuletide Hauntings.
👉
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The false entrance to Belas Knap long barrow in Gloucestershire may have worked as a “spirit door”, so the dead would be able to access the offerings brought to the tomb by their descendants.
#OccultBritain
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A quick update: we were expecting our Unearthing Issue from the printers today, but it’s now been delayed to Monday.
Huge apologies, and thank you for your patience!
Get your copy here:
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It’s the Yule of Misrule and we have a present for you! Free Lord of Misrule printable to add to your Christmas decorations. Get it here:
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1/31 NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (1962)
When a skeptical professor of Psychology forces his wife to destroy her black magic charms, his luck begins to turn.
The script, co-written by Richard Matheson, was based on Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife.
#31DaysOfHalloween
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