Hellebore: Yuletide Hauntings
Spectral Roman armies wading across newly built motorways, grey ladies roaming the corridors of stately homes, phantom coaches driven by headless squires. Britain is a haunted land, with layers of history crawling between the shadows.
Hellebore: Issue 10 - The Darkness Issue
As Samhain heralds the darker half of the year, we descend into the domain of darkness to explore its associations with folklore, myth, and legend. In this issue we delve into the night as the domain of shadows—the time when demonic creatures prey on the living and people could easily become the Devil’s own.
Hellebore: Issue 9 - The Old Ways Issue
In our perceptions of landscapes we are not only informed by our senses, our knowledge, and our experience, but also by something ineffable—a link between our imagination, our inner life, and something that transcends us.
Hellebore: Issue 8 - The Unveiling Issue
The image of the veiled feminine figure— Isis, Artemis of Ephesus, Calypso— has haunted Western culture since Antiquity.
Hellebore: Issue 7 - The Ritual Issue
Mummers with ill intentions, sacrificial May Queens, ecstatic trances. Folk horror is consistently fascinated by the power of ritual. In this issue we question the subgenre’s distrust of communal expression while we celebrate communities and their power to re-enchant.
Hellebore: Issue 6 - The Summoning Issue
From the Witch of Endor to Aleister Crowley, from the Satanic feminism of the suffragette era through to the current occult revival, The Summoning Issue delves into the history of witchcraft, magic, and the occult to analyse the impulses behind acts of conjuration
Hellebore: Issue 5 - The Unearthing Issue
For the ancients, the subterranean world was the realm of the dead; in the Medieval era it became the abode of demons. With earth we cover our dead.
Hellebore: Issue 4 - The Yuletide Special
Midwinter. The shortest day, the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun. It is a time of darkness, but also of hope and celebration.
Hellebore: Issue 3 - The Malefice Issue
Curses and hexes are a recurring trope in folk horror and occult fiction. They’re active forces, invisible and unstoppable, disrupting the social order and threatening the Establishment.
Hellebore: Issue 2 - The Wild Gods Issue
The notion of paganism as a wild and primitive force has exerted a huge influence on folk horror. In fiction, pagan rituals are often seen as primitive and barbarous, but also as an antidote to repression and conventionalism.
Hellebore: Issue 1 - The Sacrifice Issue
Human sacrifice is perhaps the most recurring trope in folk horror, whether it’s practised by rural communities, as seen in The Wicker Man, or part of a Dark Arts ritual, such as that of The Blood on Satan’s Claw. We’re exploring its role in some of our favourite works of fiction, its associations with megaliths and ancient pagan cults in popular culture, its power in magical thinking, and some possible archaeological evidence for it.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 9
Inside issue 9 - The Wild Hunt, Landscape Punk, Acorn Flour, Dartmoor Pixys, Ancient Woodland, Topoglyphs, Mixtape and more.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 8
Inside issue 8 - Gogmagog, Llyn y Fan Fach, Plough Monday, Stanage Edge, Magical Anarchy and more.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 7
Inside issue 7 - Elphame, Bowmaking, Extreme Weather, The Rewild Project, Robin Hood, Fungi Foraging and more.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 6
Inside issue 6 - Elderberries, Mental Pilgrimage, Fey Folk, Stone Club, Swearing, Cursed Crops and more.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 5
Inside issue 5 - The Witchfinder General, wish trees, wilderness, monoliths, flute solos and ghostly monks.