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...
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 wri...
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...
