The Arctic is a liminal place for Westerners - unexplored until just a couple of centuries ago, painted with a palette that most Westerners are not familiar wit...
There are likely not many experiences more terrifying than an episode of sleep paralysis. Waking in a darkened bedroom, unable to move, with the feeling that an...
(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...
Mike Jay is perhaps my favourite writer on strange and obscure history: his excursions into rarely traveled back roads of conspiracy theory, mind control, drugs...
Whenever I'm watching a UFO/paranormal documentary --and it is not as often as you might think, as most of them tend to be pretty atrocious!-- there's always on...
What is it about Asian culture that intrigues the western world so? The romance, the mystery, the enchantment…all of it seems to come together to form somethin...
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...
This essay by Martin Shough is excerpted from Darklore Volume 5, which is available in paperback format from Amazon US and Amazon UK. Feature image courtesy Ale...
