Hag-Ridden by Adam's First Wife
Hag – meaning a wizened and aged women, most commonly used now in a derogatory, even misogynistic way – is actually a shorten...
Dr Simon Young and Dr Ceri Houlbrook are the contributing editors of Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present, published by Gibson Square ...
The Wicker Man and The Beornen
Today (January 8th, 2018) UK theme park Alton Towers has made a somewhat unexpected announcement. Spring 2018 will see the ope...
That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse’s womb, or at least s...
THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS OF THE SECRETS
I remembered that it was on that hill that nurse taught me to play an old game called 'Troy Town,' in which one had t...
In December 1893 a crime was committed which sent shock-waves around the world. Readers of the monthly publication Strand Magazine were the first to learn of th...
Thomas Alva Edison is a man who requires little or no introduction. In his 84 years of life Edison came up with many, many innovations including the phonogr...
Gazelle Amber Valentine is one half of sludge / doom / death metal two piece Jucifer, formed in Georgia, USA in 1993. For more than seventeen years Gazelle ...
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Festival 23- Convergence of Disco
A brand new outdoor festival celebrating Discordian counter-culture
Taking place on the weekend of July 23 at a secre...
John Reppion is an English writer based in Liverpool. A lifelong fascination with folklore, forteana, weird and forgotten history runs through all of his work, from comics (co-authored with his wife, Leah Moore), to Weird Fiction, to his essays and articles. His website is moorereppion.com and he can be found on Twitter @johnreppion.
John is the editor of SPIRITS OF PLACE, an anthology published by Daily Grail Publishing featuring Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Iain Sinclair and others.
