The Lovers and The Labyrinth
(for Jared)
The city: metal skins cloaking thin, high stairs
that step slyly to the side and flower into balconies
or turn and twist into spires, piercing...
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...
Making Witch Bottles With My Mother
A midwife—she reaches
for the flower’s afterlife and dyes
it with a puddle of St. Germain. We’re dealing
in floral ghosts & flakes of paint
curved over our...
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 Interview With Holly Black
We talk to the best-selling author and enchantress about her love for the forest and her new book The Wicked King.
*Interview from Issue #46...
Bestiarum Vocabulum
Animals have always taught us lessons. We look to them to help us describe our own behaviors and attributes: We are as sly as...
Lost In A Fairy Tale
The Witch-Wife
Light the fire, sweetheart. I am cold,
cold and wet to the skin.
I have been chasing, over hill and dale,
a ewe that heard a...
All Saints House
Imagine living in a Gothic church turned home! When we read about a family—Anastasiia, Gunther, and their three children—in Maryland doing just that, our...