Hellebore: Issue 7 - The Ritual Issue
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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.

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Hellebore: Issue 6 - The Summoning Issue
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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

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Hellebore: Issue 1 - The Sacrifice Issue
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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.

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The Sphere Group
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The Sphere Group

A comprehensive collection of the Sphere Group documents, with biographical notes on each of the members.

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A Path to the Grail
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A Path to the Grail

The Guild of the Mater Jesus originated out of Dion Fortune’s wish to form a new kind of Christian worship for adepts which would become The Church of the Graal.

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A History of Irish Magic (Forthcoming)
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A History of Irish Magic (Forthcoming)

This is our labour of love over quite a few years, covering druids, witchcraft, fairies, sacred kingship, Irish Hermeticists, W. B. Yeats and his Celtic Order, and the “Hibernian Adept” Art O’Murnaghan.

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