(Sony Pictures 2018, directed by Sylvain White, 93 mins.)
I was not looking forward to watching this film.
As long time Grail readers will know, I’ve been...
The Slender Man (or to some, just Slenderman): in the last few years, this modern monster legend has become a part of mainstream culture: there is a now a Slend...
We can’t stop it. We can’t bargain with it. Even if we don’t remember what the ritual is. The ritual has an infinite number of working parts, surrounding us. Mo...
In early June, the British found-footage documentary Arcadia was released. A film showing the folklorish customs of Britain with a soundtrack by Portishead’s Ad...
By Brenton Clutterbuck, 2018.
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Discordianism is sixty years old.
Yeah, I did a double-take when I realised that, and I’ve been involved with Disco...
Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist
Edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott
(Fiction and ...
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, And The Decade Sci-fi Exploded, by Jason Heller
Melville House 2018, ISBN 9781612196978
(Available from Amazon US a...
This article is excerpted from Darklore Volume 9, which is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK. Darklore 9 features essays from Alan Moore, Mike Jay, Robert...
HBO, 2016ce, 117mins. Director; Irene Taylor Brodsky. Broadcast 23 January 2017.(Art by Joe Coleman)There is a concept in the consideration of supposedly ...
There’s a scene in the ill-regarded 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where Hugh Jackman, acknowledged to be generally perfect in this role, gets to de...
Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent was born on Imbolc-Groundhog Day in 1964. He is a lifelong student of the occult, and a former professional combat magician and curse-breaker. His writing and talks on Forteana and magic can be seen at catvincent.com, tinyurl.com/catvtalks, and occasionally in Fortean Times. He lives in Yorkshire, England with his wife, the artist Kirsty Hall.
His favourite deities are Babalon, Eris, Brigantia, Elen of the Ways and Valen from Babylon 5.
