An Enchanting Interview with Cat Marx from Deep Midnight Perfumes
Here's our friend Cat Marx, perfumer extraordinaire at Deep Midnight Perfumes and gorgeous witch, since any autumn missive would be remiss without a discussion of...
Ferns and Fairy Tales
Photography by Scott Irvine
There is something inherently magical about ferns. Perhaps it’s because they’ve retained their prehistoric look. Ferns took root long before animals walked...
Book Excerpt: A Year In The Enchanted Garden
I wrote A Year in the Enchanted Garden: Cultivating the Witch’s Soul With Spells, Crafts & Garden Know-How, my new book from Llewellyn, to...
Excerpt from The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black
We're super excited about #1 New York Times bestselling author/Queen of Faerie Holly Black's new novel The Prisoner's Throne, the "stunning blood-soaked conclusion to the...
An Ode to Dark Romanticism
The old woman could be seen as a shadow against skeletal trees that scratched at a threatening sky, for she took solace in late...
The Naturalist’s Dream of Mermaids Collecting In The Deep
I. An expedition
More scientists than sirens, the mermaids
gather specimens with the stalking skill
of anglerfish. They catalogue all evidence
in an abyssopelagic lab, sterile in the...
A Dream of Muddy Water
Feature image by: Darla Teagarden
I was raised by a Southern tribe of women who believed in Jesus and could tell the future. The Jesus...
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...
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...
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...









































