And Maidens Call It Love-In-Idleness
Children! To perform this nifty trick, ask your mother for a shelled-out lemon, balled-up handkerchiefs, a vial of perfume, fire, and a pistol. “I...
Father Christmas and the Tomten
Written and Illustrated by Charles Vess
From Issue #29 - digital // print
Come closer and listen well, for I have a tale to tell. For...
Signs You May Have Fallen Through Time
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
• You can lace your own corset without assistance.
• You wear corsets.
• When your friends order cocktails, you prefer a...
The Tree and She
In her first memory of this life, she clutched two pecans in her small hands. Warm brown with tabby cat black stripes, dry and...
An Excerpt From Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen
Photography by Natalia Le Fay Follow Natalia Le Fay on Instagram @natalia_lefay.
The Lost Queen by Simon & Schuster was published in September, 2018. Read...
Cordelia, or the Price of Salt
Father loved me better than my sisters. That sounds desirable, yes? To be best loved, to be the one desired?
The dresses he gave me were...
Nine Types of Ice
Garden Ice
I was alone when the cold began. Ice fell onto the gar-den like rain, only it was a pale green, so pale you...
The Witch’s Secret
Feature Image: Study for Maidens Picking Flowers by the Stream (1911),
by John William Waterhouse
Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
There was something strange about the cottage at...
Dance of the Selkies
Article from the Sumer Mermaid Issue #59
Photography by The Witching Hour Photography
Model Tatiana Pimentel
The woman glanced in the mirror and wondered who the tired person...
Amulet
In the village where they lived everyone knew there was only one way for whomever went to meet the beast in the woods to...