Interview with Emeric Harney of Harney & Sons Teas
Given our great love of tea and tea parties, we thought we'd go to a tea expert/master tea blender, our friend Emeric Harney of Harney &...
Aubrey Beardsley and the Weight of Decadence
The Peacock Skirt (1893), by Aubrey Beardsley
If you’re anything like me, you might have increased in mass over the past eighteen months. While the...
A Wild Yarn
Feature image credit: AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
When it comes to costuming, enchantment lies in the details. Flora Kennedy’s exquisite accent pieces add layers...
Madder and Woad: Color and the Victorians
“Down with the pretty ladies of the old school! Down with the old masters! Away with the pretty ladies!”
Ken Russell’s Dante’s Inferno (1967), a...
A Tale as Old as Time
As the classic Disney song reminds us, “Beauty and the Beast” possesses a rich history and a powerful legacy of enchantment. While most versions we...
Bringing the Macabre Into Your Fiction
Be it tales of wicked fairies, necromancers in their bone palaces, or demons waiting by the roadside to bargain for souls, the macabre has...
The Holly King
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
Wassail, drink hail to the sleeping trees blanketed in a white cloak of snow, under the dark of night. Leave the warmth...
Narwhals
Monodon Monoceros: one tooth, one horn. Or one toothed unicorn. Narwhals are dappled grey whales that live in the Arctic, wielding nine-foot-long tusks. Their remote,...
La Vie en Aquamarine
Photography by pleasant art
Article from the Mermaid Issue #59
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It feels like fate that Dame Darcy—equal parts mermaid and witch, a longtime...
Fairy Gifts
Have you noticed that fairy tales aren’t really about fairies? J.R.R. Tolkien points this out in his essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Fairy tales, he says,...