Hellebore: Issue 008 - The Unveiling Issue
The image of the veiled feminine figure— Isis, Artemis of Ephesus, Calypso— has haunted Western culture since Antiquity.
Hellebore: Issue 007 - 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 006 - 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 005 - 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 004 - 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 003 - 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 002 - 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 001 - 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.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 4
Inside issue 4 - The Watcher, Sorbus Aucuparia, Green Lung, Running Wild and a whole host of other mysteries.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 3
Inside issue 3 - Mermaids, Forgotten Stones, Wirral Wanderings, Water In The Tarot, and a whole host of other mysteries.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 2
Inside issue 2 - Woodwoses, haunted toxic waste, mushrooms, thaumanturge's theme and a whole lot of other mysteries.
Grimoire Silvanus: Issue 1
Inside issue 1 - Artemisia Vulgaris, A Kelpie, Sphagnum, Alchemy, The Devils Work and a whole lot more.
Folkwitch: Issue 3
Issue three is a volume of fire & rhythm, of soundsystems as laboratories, of the earth screaming at the burning of the forests, of dancing & finding our way in this maddening time of ecological devastation.
Folkwitch: Issue 2
Chock full of incredible essays & pieces by some of the world’s great contemporary occult authors. In a limited edition of 48 copies per print run Folkwitch is meant to be for the discerning witch looking to read work by likeminded authors and artists who explore the path as an active participant in our world.
Folkwitch: Issue 1
Dedicated to the tradition of occult fanzines, esoteric pamphlets, slanderous onesheets & the underground periodicals of anarchists, radicals, and outcasts FOLKWITCH will be an occasional periodical brought to you by Alkahest Press & the Skeptical Occultist, featuring a motley cast of contributors focused on the exploration of folklore, folk witchcraft, & landscape magic.