Enchanting Interview with Fantasy Author Melissa Herold
We wanted to introduce you to Melissa Herold, fantasy author and herbal alchemist, and her debut fantasy novel Heaven’s Silhouette: Iyarri Chronicles Book 1, which...
Clockwork Princess
Feature Illustration by Charles Vess
Article From 2014 Spring Issue #26
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Once, there was a clockwork princess who lived in a land of forgotten things. The...
Amber: Healing and History in One Golden Gem
Amber entices us, entraps us willingly, lures us into its honeycolored depths. Even if the particular piece we admire does not include a small...
Enchanting Interview with Anna Krusinski of Willow & Birch Apothecary
We want to introduce you to the wonderful Victorian-inspired apothecary and perfumer Willow & Birch Apothecary and its Victorian-loving owner Anna Krusinski, who spends much of her...
The Quickest and Wickedest Cocktailing in the Fin de Siècle
Picture the heavenly death of lab rats subjected to absinthe tests, like those reported in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of 1894: “The...
The Seal Wife
Illustration by Julia Jeffrey of Stonemaiden Art
Sometimes when we fight,
I want to slip on my seal skin
and disappear beneath the waves.
I warned you when...
An Enchanting Interview with Robert Beatty
We hope you're doing beautifully today. We have some beautiful news for you too: Serafina and the Seven Stars, the fourth Serafina book in Robert Beatty's...
Ways to Embrace an Art Nouveau Aesthetic
• Adorn your long and flowing (or short and pixie-perfect) hair with flowers, one tucked above each ear with a headband or ribbon between,...
Dreaming Faerie
Cover Images by ©Brian and Wendy Froud
I dream of green eyes and the silent fall of petals on my hair; the sound of someone...
An Interview with Briana Saussy
We have something special to share with you from author Briana Saussy, whose new tome Making Magic focuses on making magic in the most lovely,...