The official wolf hunting season in Britain once ran between late December and late March, but by all accounts the beasts were more-often-than-not killed whenever the opportunity arose. Indeed, wolves seem to have been hunted in the British Isles for as long as they and humans co-existed, but exactly when that period came to an end is a matter of some debate. ...
Something weirdly this way comes: The new season of Hellier, the ground-breaking, independent paranormal series produced by Dana and Greg Newkirk, alongside th...
There are few people that raise the ire of 'skeptical' archaeologists than Graham Hancock. That's a shame, because Hancock is the best writer in the world on ar...
The wonderful Jacques Vallée celebrates his 80th birthday today! Jacques has been, and remains, one of the great thinkers on topics that inhabit the fringes of...
Tales of civilization coming to a sudden end are as old as human civilization itself, from the Biblical tale of Noah through to Plato's story of Atlantis. And s...
Darker
re-imaginings of fairy tales appear periodically in popular culture, but most
of them would seem tame next to the
first written versions. The inhe...
A couple of days ago I found a very interesting tweet on my feed. It was written in Spanish, and told the story of a senior British citizen who claimed that ev...
Bavaria is a land of festivals. The wheel of the year is turned by
celebrations such as the raising of Maibaums, Krampuslaufen and, of course, the
world famous...
(This essay is excerpted from Darklore Volume X, which is available now from Amazon US and Amazon UK.)
Every June, the town of Hamelin in Germany celebrates...
