Moon Mistress and Shadow Queen
The Rivals
Diane de Poitiers was the moon goddess on Earth.
Born a few days after the calendar rolled over to 1500, she lit up the...
Moonlight Lover
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, or so John Keats (1795–1821) stated in the opening stanza of his poem Endymion (1818). While...
Mosaic Threads of Novel Escapes
Photos by Ileah Lutz of Propel the Moon Photography
I love many things about fantasy films—the dazzling costumes, otherworldly beauty, and pristine nature. Tall trees...
Karen Kay’s Fairy Whispering
Author and fairy expert Karen Kay has been hearing fairy whispers since she was a young girl—and it started in her grandmother’s wild, rose-filled...
Ode to Foxfire
Some people carry wicker baskets into the woods and fill them with chanterelles and morels. They gather wild mushrooms to plop into soups and...
How We Begin is Not How We End
Feature Image: Hollow Bones by Katrina Haffner
As I’m down on all fours, balanced on one hand and one knee with my opposite leg suspended...
Mushroom Maidens
i choose a drizzly day in the gloaming to wander through the emerald cathedrals of the Cascadian coastal rainforest. I love days in the...
Tales of the Sinister, Liminal Mushroom
by Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman
“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
—T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead
In recent years, mushrooms have appeared...
The World is a Fairy Ring
Feature Image: Fairy Resting on a Mushroom (1860), by Thomas HeatherleyThe house we lived in when I was a child had a storage cupboard...
Can Mushrooms Save the Planet?
Renowned mycologist Paul Stamets is, simply put, mad about mushrooms. From tame little grocery-store white buttons to flamboyant foraged chanterelles, there isn’t much that...