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 Woman Who Could Talk To Bees
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Models: Jo Maldonado and her service dog Baruh
There once was a small village tucked deep within a forest that seemed made for the...
A Love Letter to Ladies Accused of Witchcraft | Pt. 2
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The Witch of Endor Raising the Spirit of Samuel (1783), by William Blake
Photo ©Ken Welsh. All rights reserved 2022 / Bridgeman Images
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A Love Letter to Ladies Accused of Witchcraft | Pt. 1
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Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London (1835), by Édouard Cibot
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When I was in high school, I had pointy features and big...
Seductive Subversive Saucery
For the Victorians, witchcraft was a thing of both fantasy and all too real fact. As late as 1895, there was the terrifying case...
The Witch Behind the Witches
Feature Image: Major Andre’s Tree, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928), by Arthur Rackham
A confession is required before we begin. Although I spent...
A True Love Charm
Photography and text by
SABRINA L. GREENE PHOTOGRAPHY
"I hope they’re home,” Eliza whispered to herself as she walked down the mountain’s well-worn path to the...
Q&A with John Keske of Deep Midnight Perfumes
Our friend John Keske, who now runs Deep Midnight Perfumes in the wake of his partner Cat Marx's passing (you can read our past interviews with...
Our Top Five Literary Witches
Writing a list of our top five witches is surprisingly hard, but not for the reasons you might assume. It’s not that we can’t...
Out of the Hatch
From Issue 59 - The Nautical Issue
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When it rained, you felt it from all sides. The persistent pitter-patter of droplets...